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A MEDICAL HISTORY 



OF THE 



STATE OF INDIANA 



By G. W. H. KEMPER, M.D. 



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American Medical Association Press 

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Copyright, 1911 
by 

G. W. H. Kemper. M.D. 
Muncie. Indiana 



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TO THE PHYSICIANS OF INDIANA 

WHOM I HAVE KNOWN 

AND 

TO THOSE 1 KNOW 

THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED 

BY THE AUTHOR 

G. W. H. K. 



FOKEWOED. 

This volume is a collection of the several 
articles published in The Journal of the Indiana 
State Medical Association during the years 1909 
and 1910 and the earlier months of 1911, and 
entitled "Sketches of the Medical History of 
Indiana. 77 In the present form the articles have 
been revised, mistakes corrected and new his- 
torical matter added, thus bringing the work up 
to a later date. The encouragement I have 
received from numerous readers has stimulated 
me to reproduce the results of my labor in a more 
permanent form. 

Two years and a half ago, at the solicitation 
of friends, I began the task of preparing and 
writing the articles, and I have bestowed time, 
patience and care upon them. Biographical 
sketches are confined to deceased physicians; the 
living are mentioned only in connection with 
historical matters. 

I became a member of the State Medical 
Society in 1867. and have been a faithful attend- 
ant at the sessions of that body ever since. I 
knew personally many of the founders of the 
Society. Dr. W. H. Wishard, who is still living 
and was present at the state medical convention 
in 1849, has been a personal friend since 1862, 
when I first met him on the battle field of Shiloh. 
I was associated with Drs. Bobbs, Mears, Parvin, 
Field, Hibberd and. many others who were active 
members of the profession fifty year? ago — men 



viii FOREWORD. 

who were instrumental in elevating the standard 

of medicine in Indiana, as well as laying the 
foundation of our present State Medical Asso- 
ciation. 

These men, all save one, have passed away, and 
I have lived to make the acquaintance of a new 
generation of physicians. My service as chair- 
man of the Committee on Necrology gave me a 
knowledge of the names of deceased members, 
and the preparation of an "Index of the Trans- 
actions of the State Society from 1849 to 1900" 
gave me an acquaintance with medical men and 
medical articles in those volumes. 

The time seems opportune for a medical his- 
tory of Indiana. In 1916 our state will be 100 
years old, and the century has produced no medi- 
cal history. Some one ought to produce such a 
work; it seems fitting that I should undertake 
the task. 

While the articles were appearing in the Jour- 
nal, a few typographical errors escaped detec- 
tion; these have generally been corrected. Sev- 
enty-five or sixty years ago it was quite common 
to give only the surname, or initial letter of 
christian name, of individuals when used in 
print. This was common in the Transactions. 
After considerable search, I have been able to 
supply nearly all of the deficient names. I wish 
especially to call attention to the correctness and 
completeness of names in the index. 

I pride myself on the correctness of dates and 
references. Eeference to the Transactions, med- 
ical journals and books have been verified by 
referring to the original articles, and the proofs 



FOREWORD. ix 

repeatedly read by copy. This has required time 
and much care, but I feel a satisfaction in know- 
ing that my work will be appreciated by the 
reader seeking information. In spite of all my 
precaution a few insignificant errors may have 
escaped detection. If any are found I shall 
greatly regret it. 

My preference has been to first honor the ear- 
lier physicians of Indiana, and secure knowledge 
of them while their relatives and friends are yet 
living. 

A few pictures of honored physicians have 
been inserted. 

I wish here to express my thanks to all who 
have aided me in my work. I dare not begin to 
name the individuals. Generally, every request 
for information has been cheerfully complied 
with : a few failed to respond. 

I lay no claim to perfection in my work: I 
wisli it was a better book. I have toiled at my 
task in season and out of season. My professional 
brethren will know how to sympathize with me. 
And while the world is disposed to be indifferent 
to others* burdens, it may soften criticism to 
know — if I may be pardoned for comparing a 
small affair to a large one — as the great Dr. 
Johnson said of his dictionary, "that it was writ- 
ten, not in the soft obscurities of retirement or 
under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid 
inconvenience and distraction." 

G. W. H. Kemper. 

Muncie. Ind., June 1. 1911. 



INTRODUCTION. 

"He took the suffering human race; 

He read each wound — each weakness clear — 
And struck his finger on the place 

And said, 'Thou ailest here — and here.'" 

— Matthew Arxold. 

"Why not idealize the doctor some?" is the 
key-note of the biography of Indiana physicians 
presented to his professional confreres by Dr. 
Kemper in this volume. The writer has a genius 
for history, and as the first century of our State's 
existence is drawing to a close, it is eminently 
proper that Dr. Kemper should now assume the 
task, and write a medical history of Indiana. His 
life has happily fallen in the greatest era of devel- 
opment and progress known to man. Most of 
this he has seen and part of it he has been. He 
has brought to his work an infinite faith and a 
reverent hope, and surely the mind which has 
received so much has trusted the Power by which 
it has worked and lived. His threescore and ten 
years have seen civilization extend over the great- 
est and fairest valley of the world. He has seen 
his country rent with strife, and. following his 



DR. ALE1IBERT WINTHROP 
BRAYTON, of Indianapolis, so well 
known to the physicians of this state, 
is thoroughly conversant with med- 
ical journalism, is in touch with his- 
torical matters and comprehends tho 
needs of our profession second to no 
other person. At my request he con- 
tributes an introductory chapter to 
this volume. — G.W.H.K. 




\ii INTRODl ( TION. 

duty and his will, he has taken a worthy part in 
the conflict, both as soldier and as surgeon, in the 
faith that the destiny of organized nature and of 
human institutions is alike amelioration and bet- 
terment. For the medical profession, more than 
any other, imparts to its votaries a reverence and 
wisdom born of thought and knowledge, inspi ring- 
both cheerfulness and hope. 

The life of any man rightly and courageously 
conducted is the true romance. To the soldier- 
surgeons of our great national struggle such a life 
in its preparation, in its fulfilment and in it? 
aftermath of experiences, memories and reveries, 
must have yielded the imagination a higher joy 
than any fiction. But such a life does not con- 
tent itself with dreams and fancies; it tends to 
reason and deduction, to the orderly considera- 
tion of the things done and the personality of the 
doers, and their relation to the present and the 
future as w T ell as the past, and so arises the 
recording of history and biography. Thus, we 
take it, have naturally developed these "Sketches 
of the Medical History of Indiana," by Dr. 
Kemper. 

And to this inherent taste and sense exercised 
through a half century of writing and note-tak- 
ing, of wide acquaintance, combined with great 
geniality of nature and the possession of an un- 
usual memory for facts and faces, and a wise 
foresight, is due the collection of the material for 
the present work. The author has shown in the 
book throughout, the genius for studious research 
in the collection and arrangement of details; the 
patience which goes on like the stars, unhasting 
and unresting. 



IXTKODVCTIOX. xiii 

This work of Dr. Kemper's, therefore, is not a 
series of camp-fire stories or the exaggerated fan- 
cies of the old soldier "who shoulders his crutch 
and shows how fields were won." It is a serious 
consideration of the progress of medicine in Indi- 
ana from the time the Northwest Territory was 
wrested from the British in 1799, to the present. 
The author has consulted histories of the early 
days; he has collected and edited the historical 
papers of Dr. Hubbard M. Smith of Vincennes — 
the town where the first medical society of the 
Territories was organized, in 1817. In this book 
may be read the medical history of a number of 
the cities and counties of Indiana, contributed by 
distinguished deceased and living physicians of 
the state. 

Dr. Kemper has given us just and true biog- 
raphies of most of those of our confreres who 
have gone to their eternal reward. Here a fine 
discrimination was required and has been exer- 
cised. The early physicians, those who rendered 
notable service in medicine and surgery or in 
education, have received due measure of honor. 
It may be well doubted if any sister State has 
had or will have so just and complete a history of 
its departed physicians as Dr. Kemper has given 
in his stories of our honored dead. The reports 
began in 1879 by Drs. J. E. Beck and James F. 
Hibberd of the Section on Necrology, and their 
continuation in later years by Dr. Kemper in the 
State Society "Transactions," have made this 
part of the work more perfect than usual in such 
lists. The records were usually written by per- 
sonal friends of the deceased, or the secretarv of 



\iv /\ TRODl CTION. 

the County Society, and often threw side-lights 
on local history and environment. 

With the passing of the old and stately annual 
volume of the "Transactions/' and the substitu- 
tion therefor of a monthly medical journal, there 
were losses as well as gains. It is doubtful if a 
single complete file of The Journal of the Indiana 
State Medical Association exists in Indianapolis 
outside those of the City and State Libraries. 
The writer knows of no others. Therefore, the 
members have no permanent mailing list or 
other commensurate means of knowing who are 
the members of the State Society. There are no 
longer adequate obituaries: the Society evidently 
has no time to stop and gather up its dead. The 
present writer believes that The Journal of tlie 
Indiana State Medical Association has better 
justified its being by the publication of Dr. 
Kemper's "Sketches of the Medical History of 
Indiana" than by any other work it has accom- 
plished. 

Purely medical science will find expression 
for itself; it cannot be suppressed. The really 
valuable papers and discussions of any State 
will continue to appear in the great weekly 
journals of the country, as they are now doing. 
But the things of the heart and the life, those 
which have to do with the social nature of man 
in his own day and generation — the records of 
love and service for the living and respect and 
honor for the dead, are not likely to be sympa- 
thetically recorded by journals devoted to organi- 
zation and centralization. 

Dr. Kemper's work appeals to our sense and 
knowledge of the old love and loyalty which 
develops in the hearts and homes of those who 



IXTR0DUCT10X. xv 

have grown up together; who in medical work 
have developed their own rules and regulations of 
social life and government in democratic assem- 
blies; who elect their own officers and conduct 
their own business and with whom organization 
is a means rather than an end. For the greatest 
enemy of government is government itself, and 
it becomes dangerous and anarchical to the extent 
that it is centralized and organized as an object 
in itself or for those who administer it rather 
than for those who formed it and for whose peace 
and happiness it was established. 

No introduction to Dr. Kemper's book would 
be complete without some brief notes of his biog- 
raphy and a just emphasis upon his life-long 
interest and success in the different fields of 
obstetrics, medicine and surgery. His medical 
life has covered a period of fifty years. His 
opportunity was great, as the sketch of his life 
here given shows. Born in Eush County, Dec. 
16, 1839, he was educated in the common schools 
and for two years in a, country printing office. 
He began the study of medicine with Dr. John 
W. Moodey of Greensburg in his twenty-first 
year. He had read but a few weeks when Gov- 
ernor Morton called for 6,000 troops from Indi- 
ana to assemble at Indianapolis. Dr. Kemper 
enlisted and served as a private in the Seventh 
Regiment of Indiana Volunteers during the 
three months' service, and had the distinction 
of being present at the first battle of the Civil 
War — Philippi, W. Va. On Sept. 25, 1861, he 
reenlisted in the Seventeenth Indiana Volunteers 
as hospital steward, and was promoted to the 
rank of assistant surgeon of the same regiment 



wi /\ TRODl CTION. 

— and this prior to his graduation — a position 
he Tilled until the expiration of his three years' 
enlistment. He attended a course of lectures at 
the University of Michigan during the session of 
L864-65, and went from that institution to a 
spring course at the Long Island College Hos- 
pital of Brooklyn, N. Y., where he graduated in 
June. 1865. The same year he located in Mun- 
cie, his present home, only being absent from 
general practice when traveling in Europe and 
Asia. He spent some time in the Mediterranean 
countries, being especially attracted to Egypt and 
Palestine. He served five years as coroner of 
Delaware County, and for over thirty years as 
examining surgeon for pensions. He has been 
treasurer and president of the Indiana State 
Medical Society, professor of the history of 
medicine in the Indiana Medical College, and in 
the Medical School of Indiana University. 

Under all these varying functions he has kept 
his eye single to the practical applications of his 
art in the healing and prevention of disease and 
injury, and incidentally prepared himself to be 
the historian of the Indiana medical profession. 
He is the ideal representative of the definition 
of the physician given by Hippocrates: "The 
good man skilled in healing." 

At no time in his long career has Dr. Kemper 
permitted his talent to lie buried, nor his light 
hidden. He has contributed more than fifty 
elaborate articles to medical journals and our 
state medical society, relating to medicine, sur- 
gery and obstetrics. In the State Transactions 
for 1901 he furnished a complete index of all 



/XTRODUCTIOK. xvii 

the transactions from 1849 to 1900. In 1897 he 
published a booklet entitled "Uses of Suffering," 
and in 1905 another entitled "The World's Anat- 
omists." 

Dr. Kemper was the first to report a case of 
mycetoma in the United States; the "madura 
foot," or "fungns foot of India," which is caused 
by a growth allied to the ray fungus of the more 
common disease, actinomycosis hominis (Ameri- 
can Practitioner, Vol. xiv, p. 129). This dis- 
covery was made by Dr. Kemper more than 
twenty years before the widespread appearance 
of blastomycosis, spirochotrosis, and actinomy- 
cosis through the United States was generally 
recognized, although cases of these diseases are 
few in number and their occurrence not infre- 
quently overlooked. Dr. Kemper's case had all 
the clinical indications of the disease in question, 
and there is no reasonable doubt of its pathology 
as determined and published in his report. 

He has always taken a great interest in the 
subject of Cesarean section. His receut paper 
"before the State Medical Association at the Fort 
Wayne meeting in September, 1910, is probably 
the only paper extant which gives a concise and 
yet complete account of every Cesarean operation 
performed in any single state of the Union. This 
essay, published in the April, 1911, issue of The 
Journal of the Indiana State Medical Associa- 
tion, is entitled "A Plea for the Cesarean Opera- 
tion, Based on a Eeport of Fifty-Three Cases Per- 
formed in Indiana." 

If the teachings and experience of Dr. Kemper 
could have been resorted to in earlier years, 



xviii INTRODUCTION. 

Cesarean section might not have been left for so 
long a period to outside towns and county-seat 
surgeons. Commenting on Dr. Kemper's paper, 
Dr. Walker Schell no doubt expressed the senti- 
ment of the society when he said in his discus- 
sion: "This society feels very grateful to Dr. 
Kemper for his able paper, for the interest he has 
shown in Indiana medicine in preserving this 
history. Certainly we ought to be proud that a 
man of his years should grow old so gracefully. 
May God preserve him long in our midst !" 

In his sympathetic note on Dr. John S. Bobbs, 
in these sketches, Dr. Kemper states that "the 
crowning glory of Dr. Bobbs' professional life is 
his well-earned reputation as the Founder of 
Cholecystotomy." 

This operation was performed June 15, 1867, 
in a rented room over a drug store, now the site 
of the Indianapolis Commercial Club. A brass 
tablet, similar in scope to that commemorating 
Abraham Lincoln in the south wall of the Clay- 
pool Hotel, should be set in its front by the state 
society, in commemoration of Dr. Bobbs.* 

An article of some seventeen pages by Dr. 
Kemper, with the title "Affections of the Gall 
Bladder Tending to Besult in Cutaneous Biliary 
Fistula." was read before the Indiana State Med- 
ical Society May 20, 1879, and was published 
in the Transactions for the same year, on page 
120. This notable paper of some 10,000 words, 



* The patient. Mrs. Z. Burnsworth, is still residing at 
McCordsville, Ind. On June 12, 1909, she was visited at 
her home by Sir Alexander R. Simpson, for thirty-five years 
professor of midwifery and diseases of women in the' Uni- 
versity of Edinburg, in company with Drs. O. G. Pfaff, A. 
C. Kimberlin and A. W. Bravton. 



INTRODUCTION. xix 

and an extract from a paper by Dr. Martin B. 
Tinker, in the Johns Hopkins Bulletin, August, 
1901 — the latter republished in the Indiana 
Medical Journal, October, 1899 — were mainly 
instrumental in bringing the Bobbs case before 
the medical world. 

The results of Dr. Kemper's work and ripe 
scholarship as embodied in these sketches have 
been to set the history of our profession in Indi- 
ana forever beyond the reach of moth and rust. 
Oblivion cannot claim them; they cannot be 
alienated. But the soldiers and the soldier-sur- 
geons of the Mexican and Civil Wars — those 
who fell in the days of strife, and those who sur- 
vived for a time, and with whose laurels it is 
fitting to place not only the wreath but the 
sword — have been forever commemorated by Dr. 
Kemper. For to his lot fell the duty and privi- 
lege of serving our common country over three 
years in the Civil War, and afterward to have 
been for over forty-five years in peaceful practice. 

The days and years of peace are not ignoble, 
not without courage and honorable victories. The 
highest aims of social and political life are to 
secure the brotherhood of man, the unity of 
nations, and the peace of the world. To these 
ends our profession has devoted itself in both 
times of peace and times of war. But more to the 
soldier-physicians than to the others who have 
gone beyond the sound of our transient voices, 
do we feel that it was given to uphold the ideals 
of liberty as well as of charity and healing, 
which by their triumphs have united in the bonds 
of peace, knowledge, good will, common friend- 



w INTRODUCTION. 

ship and prosperity all the sections of our coun- 
try. These he has honored, as is just and fitting, 
with special mention and remembrance. 

Certainly all Indiana physicians will be inter- 
ested in the chapter devoted to the formation and 
growth of the Indiana State Medical Society and 
Association and the lists of its early members. 
A chapter on medical legislation in the state, the 
history of the State Health Board, the record of 
the half-dozen Indiana physicians who served in 
the Mexican War, and the long lists of those who 
served as soldiers or surgeons in the Civil War, 
in the Spanish-American War, and in the regular 
Army and Navy, are features which will add to 
the value of Dr. Kemper's work as the years 
go on. 

Dr. .Kemper has silently, persistently and 
almost unconsciously in these sketches built him- 
self a monument more durable than tablets of 
brass or kingly pyramids of stone. We may sav 
in words of the fullest assurance that his work 
reflects accurately the whole span of his profes- 
sion in the best half century of medical progress, 
and that as a simple and truthful tale of his own 
work and that of his associates, this book will 
often be referred to in the future. Later histo- 
rians of our Indiana profession will find in these 
sketches perennial youth and freshness and a uni- 
versal appeal. They have local color and are 
busied with local concerns, but at the same time 
reflect so many of the great features of medical 
progress that they will take an honored place 
with allied books in the history of our profession. 
Gibbons' "Decline and Fall of the Roman 



INTRODUCTION. xxi 

Empire" was characterized by Carlyle in a chance 
remark to Emerson as a splendid bridge from the 
old world to the new. And so these sketches of 
Dr. Kemper's may be regarded as a section of the 
great arch which unites* the medicine of the early 
fathers with that of the present century. 

Alembkrt W. Brayton, M.l>. 



CONTENTS 



Chapter I 
Introductory to the Medical History of Indiana, p. 1. 

Chapter II 
Early Medical History of Vincennes, p. 4. 

Chapter III 

Medicine in the Northwestern Territory; A Contribution 

to the Early Medical History of Indiana, p. 18. 

Chapter IV 
Early Medical History of Allen County, p. 24. 

Chapter V 

Medical Men in the Early Days of Indianapolis, p. 31. 

Early Medical History of Eastern Indiana, p. 33. 

Chapter VI 
Medical Reminiscences of Madison, p. 42. Early State 
Medical Society, p. 42. Early Surgery of Indiana, 
p. 45. 

Chapter VII 
Early State Medical Society, p. 48. Historical Notes 
of Indianapolis, p. 50. The Medical College at 
Laporte, p. 52. 

Chapter VIII 
Early Medical History of Terre Haute, p. 56. Proceed- 
ings of the First Medical District Society (Vincen- 
nes), p. 59. Medical Societies: Copy from Original 
Proceedings of the First Medical District Society, 
p. 63. False Joint, by D. L. S. Shuler, p. 66. 

Chapter IX 
The Central Medical College, p. 69. Bobbs Free Dis- 
pensary, p. 71. Indianapolis City Hospital, p. 71. 
Medical Societies, p. 73. 

Chapter X 
Early Medical History of Rush County, p. 75. Dr. II. 
G. Sexton, p. 7 7." Dr. J. M. Howland. p. 80. Dr. 
William B. Frame, p. 82. Fifth Medical District 
Society, p. 84. Dr. W. H. Martin, P. 87. 



\xiv CONTENTS. 

CHAPTER XI 

Early Medical History of Delaware County, p. 80. 
Reminiscences of Hancock County, p. 95. Early 
Medical History of Noble County, p. 97. 

Chapter XII 
Pioneer Physicians of Bartholomew County, p. 100. 

Chapter XIII 

Early Medical Men of Fayette County, p. 113. Early 
Medical History of Grant County, p. 119. Pioneer 
Physicians of Clay County, p. 124. 

Chapter XIV 

Early Physicians of Franklin County, p. 126. Medical 
Men of Ripley County, p. 129. Kosciusko Countv, 
p. 130. White County Medical Society, p. 131. 
Older Physicians of Steuben County, p. 132. 

Chapter XV 

Early Medical History of Fountain County, p. 133. 
Early Physicians of Jackson County, p. 138. 

Chapter XVI 

Formation and Growth of Our Present State Medical 
Association, p. 142. List of Membership from For- 
mation to the Year 1860, p. 152. 

Chapter XVII 

Epidemics, p. 161. Legal Enactments, p. 166. Recent 
Legislation, p. 168. Law of 1897. p. 171. Law of 
1909, p. 172. The State Board of Health, p. 173. 
Sessions of the Indiana State Medical Society and 
Association, p. 174. Changes in the State Society, 
p. 175. 

Chapter XVIII 

List of Presidents of the Indiana State Medical Society 
and Association, p. 176. Vice-Presidents of the 
Indiana State Medical Society and Association, p. 
178. Corrected List of Physicians Present at the 
Medical Convention Held at Indianapolis, June 6, 
1849. p. 181. 



CONTENTS. 



Chapter XIX 

War History. Indiana Physicians in the Mexican War, 
p. 185. Alphabetical List of Surgeons and Assis- 
tant Surgeons Who Served in Indiana Regiments 
During the Civil War, p. 187. Medical Officers 
from Indiana Commissioned by the President — Vol- 
unteers, p. 203. Regular Army. Volunteer Navy — 
Acting Assistant Surgeons (Civil War), p. 204. 
Spanish-American War, p. 204. List of Surgeons 
Appointed by the President in the Volunteer Army 
of the United States, p. 204. Hospital Stewards, 
p. 204. 

Chapter XX 

Medical History of Madison County, p. 207. Some of 
the Early Practitioners of Gibson County, p. 225. 
Supplemental to Phvsicians of Jackson County, p. 
227. 

Chapter XXI 

Alphabetical List of Deceased Physicians, p. 230. 

Chapter XXII 

Historical Notes and References, p. 257. 
Index, p. 367. 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 

PAGE 

Bobbs, Johns S 241 

Boor, William F 243 

Boyd, Samuel S 245 

Bray, Madison J facing page 246 

Brayton, Alembert W xi 

Burnsworth, Mrs. Z 365 

Cook, Ward 214 

Eastman, Joseph 265 

Fletcher, William B facing page 271 

Florer, Thomas W 272 

Gaston, John M 275 

Harvey, Thomas B 280 

Hibberd, James F 285 

Jameson, Patrick H 290 

Kemper, General W. H Frontispiece 

Layman, Daniel W 298 

Lomax, William facing page 300 

Marsee, Joseph W 307 

Mears, George W 309 

Miller, Abram 312 

Moodey, John W facing page 313 

Munford, Samuel E 318 

Myers, William H 320 

Parvin, Theophilus 325 

Read, Ezra 331 

Richmond, John L facing page 334 

Rosenthal, Isaac M 337 

Ryan, Townsend 221 

Sexton, Marshall facing page 340 

Sutton, George 346 

Todd, Robert N 350 

Walker George B facing page 351 

Wishard, William H facing page 184 

Woodworth, Benjamin S 358 

Certificate Issued in 1832 168 

Diploma Granted Dr. John Rea 329 

Wesley Chapel 143 



CHAPTER I. 



Introductory to the Medical History of 
Indiana. 

It was with some misgiving that I consented 
to write a series of articles upon the above- 
named subject. So much time, research and care 
is required that I hesitated. However, I have 
made the attempt and will try to produce arti- 
cles that contain historical facts and reminis- 
cences of interest, and yet I am conscious that I 
may make some mistakes and many omissions. I 
make no claim to perfection. 

I feel justified in reproducing extended ex- 
tracts from some of the earlier volumes of the 
Transactions of the Indiana State Medical So- 
ciety. I think this is advisable, for the reason 
that the papers were contributed more than one- 
third of a century ago, few copies of the Trans- 
actions are extant and. these not easy of access, 
and, further, that the information there im- 
parted is valuable and should be reproduced for 
younger medical men of the present day. I 
have the only file of these papers in Delaware 
County, and I suspect that a search of the vari- 
ous counties in the state will show but few 
copies. This is my apology for reproducing in 
part these interesting and valuable contributions. 

I shall only mention in detail the work of 
members of our profession who have passed away. 



•2 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

Their work is completed, and yet I must necessa- 
rily be brief in all that I may say concerning in- 
dividuals and what they accomplished. 

The profession of this state, and indeed the 
entire country, owes a vast debt of gratitude to 
the men who have so efficiently conducted our 
Indiana medical journals, wherein is recorded so 
much of our medical history. Dr. Parvin was 
our pioneer in medical journalism — starting the 
Western Journal of Medicine in 1866. Four 
years later this journal was succeeded by the 
Indiana Journal of Medicine, and in 1882 it was 
named Indiana Medical Journal. It continued 
under that name to December, 1908. Dr. A. W. 
Brayton especially deserves praise for the labor 
and time he has given to the Indiana Medical 
Journal. I have consulted files of this journal 
from its beginning to the present time and have 
been impressed with the vast amount of histori- 
cal matter he has furnished the profession of this 
state. Dr. Frank C. Ferguson also was an effi- 
cient editor in the early days of medical journal- 
ism. Dr. S. E. Earp, in a shorter period of time, 
has rendered' good service in The Monitor. Our 
venerable friend, W. H. Wishard, with his won- 
derful memory of nearly three-quarters of a cen- 
tury, and a pen that records so interestingly, has 
given us a vast fund of information in journals 
and State Transactions. Dr. E. French Stone, 
in his work, "Biography of Eminent American 
Physicians and Surgeons," has done justice to 
Indiana physicians. Good work in furnishing 
facts of medical history has been rendered by 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA, 3 

numerous other physicians, but I can not men- 
tion all at this time. 

Much of the very early medical history of 
Indiana is found in an article by Alfred Patton, 
M.D. (Transactions of the Indiana State Medi- 
cal Society, 1874), entitled "The Medical His- 
tory of Vincennes," which is worthy of reproduc- 
tion. 

Note. — The first issue of The Medical and Surgical 
Monitor was in June, 1898, with Dr. S. E. Earp, editor. 
The Central States Medical Magazine, published at 
Anderson, with Dr. S. C. Norris, managing editor, 
merged with The Medical and Surgical Monitor, 
November, 1905; and the union of the journals took 
the name of the Central States Medical Monitor, with 
Dr. S. E. Earp, editor, and Drs. S. C. Norris and S. P. 
Scherer, associate editors. January, 1909, The Indiana 
Medical Journal, edited by Dr. A. W. Brayton, merged 
with The Central States Medical Monitor, and the 
name was changed to The Indianapolis Medical Jour- 
nal, with Dr. S. E. Earp, editor-in-chief, Dr. A. W. 
Brayton. editor, and Drs. S. P. Scherer and S. C. Nor- 
ris. associate editors. 

On Feb. 15, 1909, the name was changed to Indian- 
apolis Medical Journal, continuing the order of num- 
ber— Vol. Nil.— G. W. H. K. 



CHAPTER II. 



Early Medical History of Yixcexees. 

"It is supposed that Vincennes was settled by 
the French, from Canada, in 1710 or 1711, and 
that a priest, Father Mermet, was stationed here 
soon after that time. The place was called 'Au 
Post du. Onabadee/ which has since been cor- 
rupted into the Old Post. In 1732 Francois 
Morgan de Yinsenne was made commandant of 
the post, and the place was then called St. Vin- 
cennes. I have carefully read everything in his- 
tory relating to this ancient city, and do not find 
the name of a single physician referred to, and 
only twice do I find any mention of diseases. An 
epidemic prevailed here soon after Father Mer- 
met came to the place, which took off more than 
half of the inhabitants. The medicine man of 
the Indian tribes, in vain, invoked the aid of the 
great Manitou for the relief of the sick, but, as 
might have been expected, superstition and ri- 
diculous incantation failed to arrest the progress 
of that terrible disease, smallpox. History in- 
forms us that the same disease prevailed here in 
1793; about seventy-five deaths then occurred. 

"The first physician who practiced medicine in 
this place, so far as we are informed, either from 
records or the old citizens, was Dr. Elijah Tis- 




MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 5 

dale, who located here in the latter part of the 
year 1792, where he died. He was an assistant 
surgeon in the United States army. Hon. 
Charles B. Lusdle has in his possession the origi- 
nal commissions, signed by George Washington, 
President of the United States, and dated at 
Philadelphia, March 4, 1791. Mrs. E. H. Domo- 
non has a copy, which I have seen. By an ex- 
amination of the Army Register of the Medical 
Department, I find that he was assigned to duty 
with the Second Eegiment, U. S. Infantry. From 
old papers and letters which belonged to Dr. 
Tisdale, some of which were written by him, I 
learn that he came to this place with the regi- 
ment in 1792, and resigned his office in 1796. I 
am unable to procure any information as to his 
medical education, but from his having received 
the appointment of army surgeon, and as there 
was then a board of four examiners, as now, it is 
to be supposed that he was a well-informed phy- 
sician. An additional evidence in favor of this 
supposition is the character of the medical books 
he relied on. Though I have not been able to 
find any of his books, I learn from one of his 
letters that he owned Cullen's Practice of Medi- 
cine, which he obtained in 1795, Bell's Surgery, 
and Hamilton's Obstetrics. These were standard 
works at that early day; indeed, but few Ameri- 
can physicians then owned Cullen's Practice, as 
it was published in London in 1789, and was not 
republished in this country until 1806. Then, 
guided by the books he read, and the manu- 
scripts he left, to which I have had access, I will 



6 UEDIC4-L HISTORY OF INDIANA, 

be enabled to commence the medical history of 
Yiiuvnncs. with his location here in 1792.* 

"The next physician who made Vincennes his 
home was Dr. Samuel McKee, Jr., who was also 
an army surgeon. His commission, the original 
of which is before me, is signed by Thomas Jef- 
ferson, President of the United States, and dated 
April 27, 1802; but I find from the Medical 
Register that he was assigned to duty here, as 
garrison assistant surgeon, in March, 1802, and 
from the same source I ascertain that he died 
here Nov. 5, 1809. His son, A. B. McKee, who 
lives on a farm near this city, has kindly fur- 
nished me with his father's old medical library, 
which is of great value in writing this history. 

"Dr. McKee was educated at the Transylvania 
University, Lexington, Ky., and was college 
librarian for a considerable time. It is said of 
him that he read every book in the library. He 
was a Greek and Latin scholar and well read in 
his profession. As the books he read were the 
same as those relied on by others of the early 
physicians, I will include all together in that 
branch of my subject. 

"Dr. Jacob Key Kendall came here in 1805 
from Virginia, and died in 1833, having prac- 
ticed here twenty-eight years. He was an able 
and popular physician. I now own his medical 
library. 

"Dr. Elias McXamee came here in 1808 from 
Pennsylvania and died in 1834. His daughter. 

* According to the "Historical Register and Dictionary 
of the U. S. Army," by Heitman. Dr. Elijah- Tisdale was a 
native of North Carolina. He entered the service as 
surgeon's mate, 2nd 17. S. Infantrv, March 4. 1791. R* 1 
signed Dec. 31, 1797.— G. W. H. K. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 7 

Mrs. Woolverton, resides here at present. Her 
husband was Dr. J. D. Woolverton, who located 
here in 1818 and died in 1834. 

"Dr. Wm. Carr Lane located here in 1812; 
removed to St. Louis in 1815, where he attained 
wealth and distinction. I have quite a number 
of his old books. 

"Dr. Alison came here in 1817 and died in 
1820. 

"Dr. L. S. Shuler came here in 1818 and died 
soon after. 

"Dr. E. Skull came here in 1811 and left in 
1813. He fought a duel with Mr. Rannenis 
Becker, which resulted in the death of Mr. 
Becker. Dr. Skull left suddenly. He was an 
acting surgeon in the army, but his name does 
not appear in the Register. I, therefore, sup- 
pose he was not regularly commissioned. 

"Dr. Hiram Decker was born and raised in 
this county, and began the practice of medicine 
in this town in 1815 ; died in 1863, having been 
actively engaged in the practice forty-eight 
years. He enjoyed the confidence of a large 
circle of friends, and was a warm, personal 
friend of General Harrison, who appointed him 
land agent for this district when he became 
President of the United States. I have his en- 
tire medical library. 

"Dr. Joseph Somes came here in 1828 from 
England; removed to Leavenworth, Kans., in 
1872. He practiced here forty-four years; was 
a well-educated and courteous practitioner. 

"Dr. W. W. Hitt came here from Baltimore 
in 1829; practiced until 1872, and retired from 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF 1XDIANA. 

practice the day lie reached his fiftieth year 
in the medical service. From him I have derived 
much valuable information in regard to the 
early medical history of Vincennes. For many 
years of his early practice here he was called on 
to visit patients fifty and sixty miles distant* 
was often called to Mt. Carmel, Terre Haute and 
other distant points. He performed an impor- 
tant surgical operation, an account of which was 
given in the Western Journal of Medical and 
Physical Sciences, in 1832, article 2, page 350, 
'History of a Sarcomatous Tumor — Its Extirpa- 
tion/ published by request of the Medical Bu- 
reau of the First Medical District of Indiana. 
By Washington YY\ Hitt, M.D., of Vincennes, 
Ind. : The tumor measured, in its largest cir- 
cumference, thirty-two inches, and its base twen- 
ty-two inches. It involved the left mammary 
gland. The age of the patient was 24 years. 
She is still living, the tumor never having re- 
turned/ 

"Dr. Hitt was a member of the constitutional 
convention in the winter of 1850 and 1851 ; was 
elected on the temperance ticket. He long en- 
joyed the confidence of the people as a physician 
and has ever been held in high esteem as a citi- 
zen. His age is now 73. 

"Dr. Davidson came here in 1830; died in 
1833. 

"Dr. J. Browne, in 1834, and died in 1836. 

"Dr. John Baty came here from France in 
1836: left here in 1866; is now living at Terre 
Haute, and is physician and surgeon to the Sis- 
ters' Hospital at that city. He attained distinc- 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 9 

tion here as a physician, and especially as a sur- 
geon. He graduated in Paris, France, taking 
the fourth honor, which entitles him to a posi- 
tion in the Medical School of Paris, but he pre- 
fers to practice his profession in free America 
to enjoying the high honor of a great medical 
school in the metropolis of France. He spent 
two or three years in the schools and hospitals of 
Paris during and since the Franco-Prussian war. 
On account of his superior attainments in medi- 
cine and surgery, his learning and high moral 
qualities, I think he deserves a special notice in 
this report. 'While here he performed many im- 
portant surgical operations and enjoyed the full 
confidence of a large circle of friends and ac- 
quaintances. His age is 62. 

"Dr. John E. Mantle came here from the 
State of New York in 1844; is still engaged in 
the practice of medicine; is doing a remunera- 
tive practice and stands high professionally and 
socially. He spent some time in New York 
City, last year, prosecuting the study of his pro- 
fession in the hospitals, giving special attention 
to diseases of women and obstetrics. His age 
is 84. 

"Dr. H. M. Smith located in this city in 
1849; is a native of Kentucky; was postmaster 
in this place eight years; was appointed by 
President Lincoln; is still engaged in the prac- 
tice and enjoys the confidence of many of our 
best citizens. He is 53 years of age. 

"Dr. E. B. Jessup came here from New York 
State in 1853; is still engaged in the practice; 
directs special attention to surgery, in which he 



10 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

lias attained a well-merited distinction. He was 
a surgeon in the civil war. 

.MEDICAL SOCIETIES OF VIXCEXXES. 

"The first medical society organized in Vin- 
ccnnes was under a charter granted try the state 
legislature in the year 1835. This society had 
the authority to give diplomas to those who sub- 
mitted to a satisfactory examination by a board 
of medical censors, which, in that early day, was 
regarded with almost as much favor as a diploma 
from a medical college. The meetings of the 
society were held quarterly and were attended by 
physicians from this and adjoining counties. A 
copy of the constitution and by-laws accompany 
this report. Sections 19 and 20 are worthy of 
attention and are herewith transcribed : 

" 'Sec. 19. Physicians should never neglect an 
opportunity of fortifying and promoting the good 
resolutions of patients suffering under the bad 
effects of intemperance and vicious lives; and, 
in order that their counsel and remonstrations 
may have due weight, it will readily be seen that 
they should have full claim to be blameless in 
life and high moral character, which we have 
stated to be a necessary prerequisite to an honor- 
able stand in the profession/ 

" 'Sec. 20. Medical men should remember the 
'Sabbath day and keep it holy/ and visits should, 
as far as consistent with professional engage- 
ments, be made before or after public worship, 
or during its intervals/ 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 11 

"I am pleased to be able to state that out of 
the entire number of physicians who have lived 
in this place, or who are here now, there has 
not been an inebriate, and nearly all have been 
moral men, and many of them members of 
churches. The physicians here at present are all 
members of some church, with one or two excep- 
tions, and not one of them that does not dis- 
courage intemperance both by precept and exam- 
ple. 

"The next medical society that was organized 
here dates in December, 1863, with Dr. W..W. 
Ilitt, president, and Dr. A. Patton, secretary. 
Its meetings were held monthly, and for a year 
or two they were well attended and the interest 
fully maintained, but suddenly they were dis- 
continued and for several years there has been 
no meeting. 

THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE VINCENNES 
UNIVERSITY. 

"The legislature of the Territory of Indiana 
granted a charter for the Vincennes University 
in 1807, with the privilege of uniting a medical 
department with its course of instruction; also 
law and theological departments. The school of 
learning is still in existence, having received an 
endowment from Congress, but the medical de- 
partment has never been organized. 

FEE BILLS. 

"I have before me one of Dr. Tisdale's bills, 
which indicates that he charged for a visit in 
town, medicine and prescription, $2.00; 'bleed- 



L2 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

ing, 50 cents; 2 doses jalap, 50 cents; 6 pills, 25 
cents; 4 pectoral powders, $1.00.' I regret that 
the bill does not include a greater variety of 
items. 

"Dr. McKee's charges in 1805 were, for a 
visit in town, $1.50, medicines additional; ex- 
tracting teeth, 25 cents; for 30 cathartic pills he 
charged 50 cents; for one dose of calomel, 1 oz. 
paregoric and vial, 62% cents; for 1 dose calo- 
mel and 1 dose tartar emetic, 50 cents; for 20 
mercurial pills, $1.50; accouchement cases, nat- 
ural, $5.00. I derive this information from a 
bill made out against one of his patients. 

"Doctors Key Kendall and Decker, in 1820, 
charged one dollar a visit in town, and charged 
much less for medicines than did Drs. McKee 
and Tisdale, the price of drugs having greatly 
decreased. 

"In 1835 I find the following charges as being 
agreed upon by the physicians, but, as they are 
the same as those of 1838-48, I will not trans- 
cribe them. I find one difference in 1835, the 
charge on prescription, with written advice, was 
from $5 to $15. 

"In 1848 a fee bill was published from which 
I extract the following: Visit in town, $1.00; 
with unusual detention, $2.00; prescriptions, 
with letters of advice, $5.00 to $10.00; consulta- 
tions, $3.00 to $5.00; night visits double; vac- 
cination, 50 cents to $1.00; venesection, 50 
cents; simple medicines, per dose, 25 cents; mix- 
tures, 25 cents per fluid oz. ; blisters, from 25 to 
50 cents; accouchement, $5.00 to $10.00. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 13 

EMOLUMENTS. 

"The physicians who have labored so faith- 
fully and so long for the people of Vincennes 
may have gained honors and the grateful re- 
membrance of friends, but not one has ever ac- 
cumulated wealth ; none have made more than a 
living, with the exception of three, and their 
fortunes, amounting to only a few thousand dol- 
lars, were the result of careful economizing, for- 
tunate investments and small families. It seems 
that medicine, though an honorable profession, 
is not a lucrative one, especially in small towns 
or the country." 

PROGRESS IN PRACTICAL MEDICINE. 

"To determine the line of practice pursued by 
the physicians who lived here at an early period, 
the only means at my command are the medical 
books I find in their libraries and the few notes 
in manuscript which some of them have left be- 
hind. I can not ascertain that any of these men 
had a line published indicating their views of 
the pathology or treatment of disease. But we 
can always safely judge men by the kind of com- 
pany they keep, and so we may judge our old 
physicians by the books they read. If Dr. Tis- 
dale was guided by Sydenham, as he no doubt 
was, until 1795, when he came into possession of 
Cullen's First Series in Medicine, we may well 
conclude that his remedies were few and simple. 
That our old physicians employed the same for- 
mulas that were advised by Sydenham is not 
claimed, for we know that many of their reme- 
dies consisted of the plants and roots that were 



14 MEDICAL EIBT0R1 OF INDIANA. 

indigenous in our forests or were grown in the 
gardens. Medicines that were manufactured 
only in England, France or German}', at that 
time, were very scarce and expensive, and substi- 
tutes were employed when possible. As a tonic 
the Peruvian bark had become popular, much 
more so than when Sydenham expressed his 
doubts about its safet}% and advised that it 
should never be used until the system was pre- 
pared to receive it by bleeding, purgatives and 
emetics. I find, however, that physicians and 
people relied upon such tonic medicines as they 
could easily obtain from the forest; one, espe- 
cially, which was considered a most wonderful 
remedy in many forms of disease, was Fontany 
root, which is a species of gentian. It is still 
used by a few old French families. 

"Dr. McKee often prescribed the sumach ber- 
ries, to be infused in water, as a cooling drink in 
fevers, and as an aperient instead of cream of 
tartar. 

"The next great work which came into the 
hands of our early physicians was Dr. Rush's 
Medical Inquiries and Observations, in which we 
find the dawnings of that great philosophy in 
American medicine which we see so strikingly 
illustrated in the practice of many of our physi- 
cians of the present day, but which unfortu- 
nately did not obtain with some of our great wri- 
ters in the early part of this century. 

"Drs. Tisdale and McKee died in 1807-9, but 
Drs. Key Kendall and McNamee were here then, 
and in 1811-12 Drs. Skull and Lane came to 
Vincennes, but neither remained long. They all 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA, 15 

followed Cullen and Rush, though Dr. Rush's 
works were not here until 1813. The next au- 
thor that I find is Dr. Thomas' work on Practi- 
cal Medicine, published in 1817 in London. He 
was never a popular author in America; was con- 
sidered entirely too timid and temporizing in his 
practice. Up to this time the only treatment 
employed in pneumonia was bleeding, tartar 
emetic and calomel, and neither Drs. Tisdale, 
McKee, McNainee, Key Kendall, Lane or 
Decker had ever heard of auscultation as a 
means of diagnosis in lung and heart diseases. 
I find the work of Corvisart on the Heart in this 
old library, but he never dreamed of the ad- 
vances that were to be made in our knowledge of 
cardiac diseases. In pneumonia, however, the 
old treatment of bleeding, evacuants and such 
depressing agents as tartar emetic, has given 
place to one that is more rational and far more 
successful. There is not a physician in Vin- 
cennes, so far as I am informed, that pursues 
the old treatment in pneumonia. 

"In that period, extending from 1815 to 1830, 
it is evident that our physicians here pursued 
the line of treatment that then prevailed in 
Philadelphia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee 
and Natchez, Miss. Among the old books are 
many works, monographs and articles in medical 
journals on fevers, bowel affections, lung dis- 
eases and others which were prevalent in this 
climate, written by such distinguished men as 
Eberle and Chapman, of Philadelphia; John 
Esten Cooke, then of Virginia, afterward Louis- 



16 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

ville. Kv. ; Samuel A. Cartwright, of Natchez, 
and others. Dr. Cartwright probably exercised 
more influence over the physicians here, as he 
was raised in this state not more than twenty- 
five miles from Vincennes. He was an able 
writer and was well calculated to please those 
who were inclined to adopt a bold and active 
treatment, as most western and southern physi- 
cians were at that time. He bled freely, but 
placed his greatest reliance upon large doses of 
calomel. From 20 to 100 grains were his favor- 
ite doses, and he claimed that the medicine was 
much milder in its action when given in large 
doses than in small ones. His formula for chol- 
era was 10 grains each of calomel, capsicum and 
camphor gum, repeated every half-hour. Dr. 
Hitt, of this city, informs me that he emploj^ed 
this treatment in the cholera here. His treat- 
ment of apoplexy was so very singular that I 
will briefly refer to it. He claimed that the 
immediate cause of death in apoplexy was the 
accumulation of phlegm in the air passages, in 
consequence of the failure of the pneumogastric 
and phrenic nerves to properly stimulate the 
respiratory muscles, and, therefore, the patient 
died, asphyxiated. Bleeding, he contended, only 
increased the difficulty, and he relied entirely on 
what he termed apophlegmatics, which consisted 
of capsicum 10 grains, mustard 10 grains, com- 
mon salt 10 grains, and calomel 10 grains, to be 
crammed down the patient's throat with a cloth 
wrapped around a stick, to be repeated until 



}//:/>/<• l/. HISTORY OF IND1 I V.I. 17 

there was free vomiting and purging. In old 
persons I have seen the remedy act exceedinglv 
well." 

Another article bearing upon the very early 
medical history of Indiana is that by Hubbard 
M. Smith, M.D., Vincennes (Transactions of the 
Indiana State Medical Society, 1906), which is 
herewith reproduced : 



CHAPTER III. 



Medicine in the Southwestern Territory: 

A Contribution to the Early Medical 

History of Indiana. 

"At the first annual meeting of the Sec- 
ond District Medical Society of Indiana, it 
occurred to me that it would not be inappro- 
priate for its members to take a retrospect of 
the doings of our coadjutors, in their lines of 
action, about a century ago. 

"The first medical society organized in the 
Northwestern Territory, wrested from the Brit- 
ish government by Col. George Rogers Clark on 
Feb. 25, 1779, occurred in Vincennes, Ind. The 
exact date is not positively known, but I know 
for a fact that its origin was prior to the year 
1818. Goodspeed, in a history of Knox County, 
published twenty years ago, states that, 'in 
1817, the physicians of this place met and 
formed a medical society.' Presumably, a so- 
ciety was then, or at an earlier period, formed, 
for I have evidence, obtained from a newspaper 
published in this town in 1818, in a call, printed 
therein, for a meeting of a medical society in 
that year, and my recollection is that Drs. Din- 
widdie and Truesdale were members. No known 
records of this society exist. 

"Another society was organized here in 1827, 
and, on June 5, elected the following officers, 
viz. : Drs. E. McNamee, president ; J. Kuyken- 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 19 

dall, treasurer, and H. Decker, secretary. Pres- 
ent: Drs. J. D. Wolverton, J. K. O'Haver and 
Philip Barton. This society bore the title, 'The 
Medical Society of the First Medical District of 
Indiana.' 

"It will thus be seen that the name of this so- 
ciety was almost identical with our new district 
organization. The extent of territory the society 
embraced I know not, but it doubtless was as 
great as that of this organization. The member- 
ship embraced the names of the following • doc- 
tors, towit: Philip Barton, G. G. Barton, Joseph 
Brown, G. G. Barry, B. J. Batty, Hiram Decker, 
H. Davidson, W. Dinwiddie, John W. Davis, 
James P. DeBruler, A. Elliott, William Fair- 
hurst, W. W. Hitt, Hezekiah Holland, R. B. 
Jessup, J. Kuykendall, Alexander Leslie, E. Mc- 
]^"amee, Joseph Maddox, F. M. McJenkin, N". 
Mears. John R. Mantle, Thomas Nesbit. J. K. 
O'Haver, T. F. Offutt, Joseph Porter/ J. W. 
Posey, J. W. Pennington, Joseph Somers, Daniel 
Stahl, J. S. Sawyer,' 0. G. Stuart, G. B. Shu- 
mard, Hubbard Madison Smith, Thomas B. 
Thompson, J. D. Wolverton, W. C. Warner and 
Daniel Dinwiddie. 

"By a reference to the records of this society 
some interesting facts are gleaned, not the least 
important of which is that of the existence at 
that time — 1827 — of a state medical organiza- 
tion. If I mistake not, the state medical society, 
organized in 1849, is supposed to have been the 
first state organization, which is an error. To 
controvert that opinion, I herewith quote from 



20 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

the Transactions of the Vincennes Medical Dis- 
trict Society the following: 

" 'This society proceeded to elect delegates of 
the State Medical Society, which resulted in the 
election of Drs. J. D. Wolverton, for three years; 
Hiram Decker, for two years, and Philip Barton, 
for one year. 

" 'Resolved, That this society do allow the sum 
of ten dollars to the delegate or delegates an- 
nually to the state medical society/ 

"And, in 1830, a like sum was appropriated 
for expenses of delegates. These records estab- 
lish the fact that a state medical society existed 
as early as June 5, 1827, and perhaps earlier, 
and the one organized in 1849 was the second 
state society. 

"Goodspeed's history of this society states that 
there was no standard pharmacopeia in the 
United States at that time, and that it sent a 
memorial to Congress to appoint a committee of 
competent physicians to compile one. This dis- 
trict medical society continued to hold meetings 
that were recorded up to March 23, 1835, and 
occasionally meetings occurred as late as 1854, 
if which the writer is cognizant, as he became a 
member of it in May, 1849, and knows of the 
admission of Dr. George B. Shumard in June 
following, and Dr. Eobert B. Jessup in Febru- 
ary, 1854, as the treasurer's book shows; yet no 
records are known to exist recording the doings 
at the meetings subsequent to March, 1835. It 
is worthy to note in giving the medical history, 
especially concerning the physicians of this med- 
ical district and town of Vincennes, that an at- 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 21 

tempt was made to establish a medical school 
here in 1S39. The charter of the Vincennes 
University, granted by the Territorial Legisla- 
tive General Assembly, gave it authority to es- 
tablish branches, besides literature, those of the- 
ology, law and medicine; and, although I find 
no record in the transactions of the University 
Board of Trustees, in a petition recorded there, 
from the physicians asking for the use of a part 
of its building, in which to teach medicine and 
its branches. The right to the ownership of the 
building being in controversy between the uni- 
versity and -the State of Indiana, the petition 
was not granted, and the project fell through, 
and no further record of it exists. 

"In looking over records of this society, I find 
little in them worthy of note. With the excep- 
tion of one paper presented by Dr. W. W. Hitt,. 
which was ordered to be forwarded to the Medi- 
cal and Physical Journal, edited by Dr. Drake, 
at Cincinnati, Ohio, and to the Transylvania 
Medical Journal, Lexington, Ky., for publica- 
tion, there is little more than routine meetings 
recorded, embracing the elections of officers, 
granting diplomas, at $5.00, and a good deal 
about contributions, by-laws and medical ethics. 
Why the transactions were not recorded after 
March, 1835, is a matter of conjecture. As a 
matter of fact I know personally that members 
were received into the society as late as February, 
1854, the members being the writer, in May, 
1849; Dr. G. B. Shumard, June, 1849, and Dr. 
Uobert B. Jessup, February, 1854. 



22 MEDIC i/. HISTORY OF INDIA \ l. 

"This district society having ceased to have a 
vital existence, a call was issued for a meeting, 
at the city hall, of the physicians of Knox Coun- 
ty, June 24, 1875, when the 'Knox County Med- 
ical Society' was organized, the following named 
physicians being present: F. W. Beard, A. J. 
Thomas, James F. Origan, Hubbard M. Smith, 
J. W. Pugh, W. W. Hitt, W. H. Wise, W. B. 
Sprinkle, O'Connel Fairhurst, J. N". Merritt, A. 
J. Haughton, Alfred Eeel, John C. Beever, John 

E. Mantel, W. B. Harris, and M. Witherspoon. 
"This society became affiliated with the state 

medical society, and maintained its organization 
until it was adopted by the new state organiza- 
tion. 

"On Oct. 26, 1875, a new medical society was 
organized in this city, composed of physicians 
of the States of Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana, 
under the title of the Tri-State Medical Society. 
The organization elected the following officers : 
Drs. Joseph Thompson, Kentucky, president; W. 
A. Smith, Illinois, J. K. Letcher, Kentucky, and 
J. B. Armstrong, Indiana, vice-presidents; Geo. 
W. Burton, Indiana, corresponding secretary; 

F. W. Beard, Indiana, secretary, and. Alfred Pat- 
ton, Indiana, treasurer. Other attending mem- 
bers were : Drs. John R. Mantel, Hubbard Mad- 
ison Smith, Willis W. Hitt, John C. Beever, 
William H. Beeson, Robert B. Jessup, Vin- 
cennes; J. S. Dukate, Wheatland; John T. Free- 
land, Freelandsville, and Martin Witherspoon, 
Bruceville. These three states comprised origi- 
nally the scope of the society, but it permitted 
physicians of other states to join it, and in a few 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 23 

years its numbers had so increased, and become 
so cosmopolitan in character, that it lost its iden- 
tity, and assumed that of Mississippi Valley 
Medical Association. After meeting a few times 
in the states it originally comprised, it met in St. 
Louis, and thereafter in many distant states, 
and the new organization soon rivaled in mem- 
bership and power, almost, the American Medi- 
cal Association. 

"About eight years ago another district medi- 
cal society was organized, which was composed 
of physicians of the counties of Knox, Daviess, 
Pike and Gibson, but it has been superseded by 
this, the Second Congressional District Medical 
Society. 

"The foregoing may be considered as prosy 
matter, but, as it embraces concise early infor- 
mation as to the time of the formation of the 
first medical society of the northwest, and the 
names of some of its members, and the medical 
organization following, to the present time, es- 
pecially as it relates to societies in county and 
district; yet I give it as a matter of medical 
history for the present, as well as for those doc- 
tors who will take our places in the coming years 
that it may be a matter of record ere time rele- 
gates the facts embraced herein to the vale of 
oblivion." 



CHAPTER IV 



Early Medical History of Allen County. 

Some of the early medical history of north- 
eastern Indiana is given in an article by H. P. 
Ayers, M.D., of Fort Wayne (Transactions of 
the Indiana State Medical Society, 1874), enti- 
tled, "The Medical History of Allen County." 
The article is deemed worthy of reproduction in 
its entirety: 

"The first white doctors who visited the site of 
Allen County were connected with the soldiers, 
traders and missionaries in the early part of the 
last centmy, but their names have not descended 
to the present generation. The first whose name 
is now known, was Dr. Curtis, who visited Fort 
Wayne in 1810, but was as much an Indian 
trader as a physician. 

"The same year Dr. Turner, who was con- 
nected with the United States Army, visited this 
place, and remained about one year. 

"Dr. Benezet, who was connected with the 
army, came in 1811. 

"In 1812 Dr. Crow, with Dr. Vorees, United 
States Army surgeon, reported for duty at this 
place. He accompanied a party of twelve men 
sume miles north, where they were attacked by 
Indians, and all killed but the doctor, who 
proved too fleet for his red pursuers. 



MKDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 25 

"In 1815 Dr. Treat, who was also attached to 
the United States Army, relieved the former 
surgeon. He was, as I have learned from some 
of our oldest citizens, a most excellent man and 
physician, and by his urbanity and kindness en- 
deared himself to all who knew him. He was 
ordered to Savannah, where he died, much re- 
gretted by all. 

"Dr. Smith, a volunteer surgeon, visited Fort 
Wayne in 1817 with a rifle company. He was 
from Lancaster, Ohio, and remained till 1818. 

"In 1818 Dr. Uphane, from Canada, located 
in Fort Wayne, but only lived a short time, and 
was buried here. 

"In 1818 or 1819 Dr. Benjamin Cushman 
moved to this place, and commenced the regular 
practice of medicine, and may properly be con- 
sidered the first resident physician. Dr. Cush- 
man has left a good reputation as a practitioner 
of medicine. He came from Eichmond, Ind., 
but of his previous history I have not been able 
to learn anything. He died about 1839. 

"Dr. L. G. Thompson was born in Mercer 
County, Kentucky, in 1803, and moved to Fort 
Wayne in 1825. He graduated in Ohio Medical 
College in 1837 and died in 1845. Dr. Thomp- 
son was the second resident pioneer physician in 
Fort Wayne, and commenced his practice about 
1821. He proved himself to be an able and skil- 
ful man, and has many friends yet living who 
bear the most ample testimony to the assertion. 
His excellence of character did not consist alone 
in his medical abilities, but as a friend, a neigh- 
bor and citizen. He had few superiors. To the 



26 MEDICAL history OF INDIANA. 

poor he was always kind. Dr. Thompson may 
be ranked among the best in his profession and 
as a valuable citizen in all the departments of 
society. His name will ever be associated with 
the early history of our city. 

"In 1834 Dr. Lewis Beecher, a graduate of 
Fairfield Medical School, New York, located in 
Fort Wayne. Dr. Beecher was a man of fine 
abilities, and soon entered an extensive and valu- 
able practice in medicine and surgery. He con- 
tinued in his profession until 1841, when he 
abandoned it and engaged in the sale of drugs 
and medicines until his death, which occurred 
in 1849. 

"Dr. P. G. Jones commenced the practice of 
medicine in our city in 1834, and died in 1853 
from dissipation. Dr. Jones was a graduate of 
Maryland University, in Baltimore, Md. He was 
a volunteer surgeon during the Mexican war and 
served faithfully until its close.* He possessed a 
mind of more than ordinary ability and was a 
close observer of men and things. He abandoned 
the practice several years before his death. 

"In 1842 Dr. Bernard Sevenick emigrated 
from Prussia and made Fort Wayne his home. 
He had been a surgeon in Bonaparte's army and 
served during several campaigns under that great 
commander, and continued, during life, to main- 
tain a martial bearing in all he did. He was 
gentlemanly and polite in all his intercourse and 
took great pleasure in maintaining the dignity 
of his profession. He died in 1849. 



* Assistant Surgeon, Fifth Indiana Volunteer Regiment. 
-G. W. H. K. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 27 

"Dr. B. C. Rowan settled in Fort Wayne in 
1842. He was born in Westmoreland County, 
Pennsylvania, 1817, and died in Fort Wayne in 
1862. Dr. Rowan graduated at the University 
of New York in 1847. In 1862 he entered the 
Army of the Cumberland. During the evacua- 
tion of Corinth he contracted disease, which 
caused his death soon after. He was esteemed 
and respected by all who knew him. Frank, 
unobtrusive and honorable, he was rapidly gain- 
ing a high position as a physician and man. He 
left many who yet regret his death and feel that 
he was too early cut down. 

"Dr. Banks was born in Cincinnati Ohio; 
graduated at Louisville Medical College, Louis- 
ville, Ivy.; commenced the practice of medicine 
at Fort Wayne, 1844. He continued here four 
years, when ill health compelled him to retire 
from the hard labor of riding. During 1849 and 
1850 he resided in Cincinnati, where he died. 
Dr. Banks was an active, energetic man, and his 
prospects of success were flattering, but disease 
too soon seized him, and death too soon cut him 
off. 

"Dr. J. Dailey graduated at Jefferson College, 
Philadelphia, and settled in this city in 1846, 
where he died in 1864. Dr. Dailey had all the 
mental ability for high attainments, but sacri- 
ficed all to intemperance. 

" "Dr. H. J. Weihmer was born in Hanover, 
Germany, in 1799 ; graduated in Berlin, Prussia, 
in 1827; emigrated to the United States in 
1838; became a resident of Fort Wayne in 1847, 
and died in 1859. Dr. Weihmer was gentleman- 



28 UEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

ly and affable in all his intercourse with others, 
and had many warm and admiring friends. He 
was a successful and careful practitioner of med- 
icine, and has left a large circle of admirers who 
yet speak of his worth. 

"This completes the sketch of white physicians 
so far as we can ascertain, but we think it would 
be an unfinished task did we omit all reference 
to Indian doctors. 

"Dr. Buck-on-ga-helas was largely engaged in 
the practice of medicine in Fort Wayne in 1804. 
He was physician and surgeon to Little Turtle, 
the great commander of the Miami tribe of In- 
dians. He acquired a great reputation in the 
cure of bites by poisonous snakes, but more par- 
ticularly from poisoned arrows then used among 
the Indians. His practice, however, was not 
confined to the Indians, but was quite extensive 
among the white inhabitants. 

"In 1807 an Indian named Ma-te-a acquired 
some celebrity as a doctor, and was employed by 
many of the French settlers in preference to any 
other. It may be interesting to many to refer 
briefly to some of the appliances of the Indian 
doctor in the treatment of disease. 

"The Indian doctors to whom I have referred 
were sharp, shrewd Indians and well acquainted 
with all the resources of the materia medica. 
Some physicians remember the days of doctors' 
saddle-bags, and perhaps some are yet compelled 
to use them. The Indian's medicine bag was 
made up in the same way ladies now make their 
needle cases. Several pockets of leather were 
fastened by thongs to a long strip of buckskin 



MEDICAL II I STONY OF INDIANA. 29 

six or eight inches wide and the length accord- 
ing to the wishes of the doctor; each pocket was 
closed by strings on the top of the pocket. Each 
pocket was filled with certain roots, herbs, 
charms, according to the extent of the doctor's 
knowledge, and then hung over the right breast; 
or, when he traveled, it was folded up and car- 
ried as a large roll. Army surgeons, under civ- 
ilized regulations, examine the mental and physi- 
cal fitness for military service, but under Indian 
regulations the surgeon's duty was to prepare 
the young warrior for duty by a spiritual prepa- 
ration and also furnish him with a war medi- 
cine. The former was accomplished by sweat- 
ing, bathing and eating bitter herbs and roots; 
the latter by the physician placing in the young 
warrior's shot-pouch a 'war physic' or 'war medi- 
cine,' which was to protect him against all the 
accidents and ills of warfare. The prescription 
was bones of a snake and wild cat; the modus 
operandi,, or rationale of the charm, I need not 
give. But to our subject more particularly. In- 
dian doctors possessed a considerable knowledge 
of the medicinal virtues of plants and their ap- 
plicability to the poisons of reptiles, poisonous 
arrows, and the diseases incidental to savage 
life. But many of their efforts consisted only 
in incantations and juggleries. The doctor would 
usually dress and paint himself in the most 
grotesque and frightful form, and then with a 
great variety of contortions of the body approach 
his patient. He would breathe on him, blow in 
his face, squirt medicine in his mouth and nose ; 
rattle beans or pebbles in a dry gourd over him, 



SO MEDICAL BIST0R7 OF INDIANA. 

at the same time keeping up the most horrid 
gesticulations and noises to frighten away the 
disease. After thus making his professional 
visit, lie would retire to await the result of his 
effort. One peculiarity more: The Indian doc- 
tor would sometimes, after compounding his po- 
tion, drink it that he might thus cure his patient, 
a custom w T hich, we think, would be highly re- 
pugnant to civilized doctors. I can not perhaps 
close this outline of the medical history of this 
section of the State of Indiana better than by 
quoting a few lines from 'Hiawatha' : 

" 'Then the medicine-men ; the Medas, 
The magicians, the Wabenos, 
And the Tossakuds, the prophets, 
Came to visit Hiawatha; 
Built a Sacred Lodge beside him, 
To appease him, to console him, 
Walked in silent, grave procession, 
Bearing each a pouch of healing, 
Skin of beaver, lynx, or otter, 
Filled with magic roots and simples, 
Filled with very potent medicines — 
Then a magic drink they gave him.' "• 



CHAPTER V. 



Medical Men in the Early Days of Indian- 
apolis. — Early Medical History of 
Eastern Indiana. 

Dr. W. H. Wishard read before the Marion 
County Medical Society, Dec. 6, 1892, a paper 
on the above subject, published in The Indiana 
Medical Journal, vol. xi, page 199, from which 
extracts are made.* His paper comprises the 
first fifteen years of history, 1821 to 1836. 

"Dr. Samuel G. Mitchell, a native of Ken- 
tucky, located in Indianapolis in April, 1821. 
He was the first physician to locate in our capi- 
tal city. He was a licensed practitioner and had 
never attended lectures. 

"Dr. Isaac Coe was the second physician to 
locate in Indianapolis, in May, 1821. He was a 
native of New Jersey. Besides being a conscien- 
tious practitioner and indefatigable in his labors, 
he helped to organize the first church and first 
Sunday school in the city. His remains repose 
in Crown Hill Cemetery by the side of his wife. 

"Dr. Livingston Dunlap came from the State 
of New York in July, 1821. He and Dr. Mitchell 
formed a medical partnership, the first medical 
firm in the city. Dr. Dunlap ranked high as a 
physician and surgeon. He was in especial de- 
mand as a consultant. He was councilman from 



See also State Transactions, 1893. p. 16. 



32 MEDICAL HISTORY OP INDIANA 

his ward in 1834. He was physician of the 
Deaf and Dumb Institution for several years, 
and was postmaster from 1845 to 1849. He was 
elected professor of theory and practice in 1849 
at the organization of the first medical college 
in Indianapolis. He practiced in the city for 
41 years, and at the date of his death, in 1862, 
was the senior physician. He was the first per- 
manent president of the State Medical Conven- 
tion, presiding at the session of 1849. 

"Dr. Scudder located in Indianapolis in 1821, 
and died there in 1829. He was regarded as an 
excellent physician and a Christian gentleman. 

"Dr. Jonathan Cool, a native of New Jersey, 
located in Indianapolis in August, 1821. He 
was a graduate of an eastern medical college. 
He received an appointment as surgeon in the 
United States Army, and for some time was sta- 
tioned at the barracks at Newport, Ky. He be- 
came so intemperate that few r would trust him, 
and died in 1840. 

"Dr. Charles McDougle, a native of Ohio, 
came to Indianapolis in 1828. He formed a 
partnership with his brother-in-law, Dr. Dunlap, 
who married McDougle's sister. In 1832 he 
received an appointment of surgeon in the 
United States Army, in which capacity he won 
distinction. When Dr. Wishard met him at 
Pittsburg Landing in 1862, he was medical di- 
rector of General Grant's army. He died in 
Virginia about 1884. 

"Dr. John L. Mothershead, a native of Ken- 
tucky and a graduate of the Transylvania Medi- 
cal College, located in Indianapolis in 1830 and 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 33 

formed a partnership with Dr. Mitchell. Later 
he was associated with Dr. Sanders, and still 
later with Dr. Bullard. He died in November, 
1854. He was regarded as a successful practi- 
tioner.* 

"Dr. John H. Sanders (1791-1850) was a na- 
tive of Bourbon County, Kentucky. In the fall 
of 1819 he rode to Philadelphia on horseback, 
where he attended his first course in medicine. 
On his return in 1820, he located in his native 
county, and soon became the leading surgeon of 
all that region of the state. In 1823 he gradu- 
ated at Lexington, Ky. In the winter of 1829- 
30 he came to Indianapolis, and soon afterward 
formed a partnership with Dr. Mothershead. In 
1839 he moved to Missouri, but returned to In- 
dianapolis in 1841, where he continued to reside 
until his death, April 4, 1850. His last partner 
was Dr. P. H. Jameson. He ranked high as a 
surgeon."f 

Early History of Eastern Indiana 
In a paper on this subject, Dr. Joel Penning- 
ton, of Milton (Transactions of the Indiana 
State Medical Society, 1873) has the following 
to say: 

"I settled in the village of Milton (my pres- 
ent place of residence) in October, 1825. The 
town consisted of seven families. We resided 
during the winter in 10x12 cabins, with 



* See State Transactions, 1855, p. 76. 

f "His oldest daughter. Zerelda G., married Gov. David 
Wallace, Dec. 26, 1836, and became the stepmother of Gen. 
Lew Wallace, and later so well known as Mother Wallace, 
the apostle of temperance and reform." — Autobiography of 
Lew Wallace, vol. i, p. 45. — G. W r . H. K. 



:U UBDIOAL II I sunn OF IND1 I \ I 

puncheon floors, clapboard roofs, stick and clay 
chimneys and ample fireplaces. We passed the 
winter very comfortably; had a full supply of 
all the substantiate of life at low figures com- 
pared with present prices. 

"About New Year I purchased of an old 
friend (Quaker) a hindquarter of beef, which 
cost, in the payment of a doctor bill, 2y 2 cents 
per pound. Pork was worth from $1.25 to $1.50 
per one hundred pounds; corn, 10 cents per 
bushel; potatoes, 12% cents; turnips, the same; 
sweet potatoes, 25 cents; wheat, 371/2 cents, and 
all other products of the soil in proportional 
prices. 

"•Our first canal packets were run in connec- 
tion with steamboat travel to Cincinnati, where 
most of our trading was done. This great 
change made the mode of traveling to points on 
the Ohio river so different from our former 
manner of reaching the cities, through mud and 
rain, that we certainly had good grounds for ex- 
ultation. I will state for the information of the 
young men in the profession who have never 
traveled over bad roads that they can not realize 
the amount of labor and exposure to which we 
old doctors were subjected in the early practice 
in Indiana. We had no means of traveling, ex- 
cept on foot or on horseback. Buggies had not 
reached so far West, and if they had they would 
have been useless, on account of the condition 
of the roads. During twenty-five years or more 
I practiced on horseback, as also did my com- 
peers; to that exposure and horseback exercise I 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 35 

am disposed to attribute a large share of the 
good health I possess at my advanced age. 

"When called during the fever and wild de- 
lirium, we seated the patient on the side of the 
bed and held him there, by the aid of assistants 
if necessary, opened a vein in his arm by mak- 
ing as large an orifice as practicable, and al- 
lowed the blood to flow until his pulse became 
soft and less resisting, or until syncope super- 
vened. We relied more on the" effect produced 
than on the quantity of blood extracted, our 
object being to produce a decided impression 
upon the heart's action. Our patient being in a 
sitting posture and the blood escaping from a 
free opening, it did not require a great length 
of time to produce the desired effect. Often 
within ten to twenty minutes after faintness or 
sickness occurred the subject of this mode of 
treatment would become bathed in a copious 
perspiration, and the violent fever and delirium 
existing a short time before would have entirely 
passed away. Now, if the indications seemed to 
require it, we directed an emetic to be given, 
usually composed of tartarized antimony and 
ipecac combined, or wine of antimony. After 
free emesis and the sickness had subsided, if 
thought necessary, we gave a brisk cathartic, 
usually containing more or less calomel. After 
the primce vice had been well cleared, it was our 
practice to give opium in such doses as the case 
required, in order to allay all irritability of the 
stomach and bowels. We directed the usual 
febrifuges to be given if the fever should return, 
and these were given in such doses as required 



36 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

to arrest or mitigate it. We used no manner of 
temporizing treatment, but aimed our agents 
directly at the extermination of diseases. Opium, 
ipecac, tartarized antimony, nitrate of potassa, 
spirits mindereri and spirits of niter, with other 
means too tedious to mention, were all fre- 
quently brought into requisition. 

"Under the above manner of treating a case 
of remittent fever it was no uncommon thing 
on our second visit to find our patient sitting up 
feeling 'pretty well, except a little weak,' and 
within a few days able to return to his ordinary 
avocations. When we met with more protracted 
cases we had recourse to the Peruvian bark, gen- 
tian, columbo, and most of the ordinary tonics 
of the present time, excepting quinia, which was 
not in use. For some time after quinia was 
introduced the price was such that Hoosiers 
could not afford to use it. The first I used cost 
at the rate of $30.00 per ounce. I may state in 
this connection that tartar emetic was a favorite 
remedy in all the active or acute forms of dis- 
ease. 

"We seldom lost patients from acute diseases. 
It would have detracted from the standing of a 
medical man should it have been known that he 
lost a patient from inflammation. He might 
lose a patient from sheer debility and be ex- 
cusable, but not from acute disease, provided he 
saw the case in an early stage of the attack. 

"Among the oldest physicians of our county 
was Dr. Ithamar Warner, who first resided at 
Salsbury, our first county seat. After the busi- 
ness of the county was transferred to Centre- 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 37 

ville, the Doctor removed to Richmond, where 
he had a large and remunerative practice to the 
close of his life. He never married; was singu- 
lar in many respects, and very irritable, so much 
so that his patients were pretty certain to carry 
out his directions without equivocation. 

"Dr. J. E, Mendenhall, also of Eichmond, 
was the first graduate in medicine in the county 
of whom I have any knowledge. He received the 
degree at the Lexington school, Kentucky. He 
was a well-qualified physician and an honorable 
gentleman. He had a good practice, but re- 
signed it in a few years and turned his attention 
to speculation in real estate, which proved to 
him a more lucrative business. He believed the 
responsibility attached to the practice largely 
overbalanced the remuneration it afforded. 

"Dr. Wm. Pugh, at one time a partner in the 
practice with Dr. Mendenhall, resided in Eich- 
mond a few years and removed to Centreville, 
where he died in 1829. I think he also attended 
a course of lectures in the Lexington school. 

"Following these were Drs. Griffith, Plummer, 
Vail, and Smith, with quite a number of others, 
who resided but a short time in the city of 
Eichmond, whose names I never knew, or can 
not now recollect. Therefore, I must confine my 
notice to a few of the more prominent practi- 
tioners of an early day, previous to the year 
1835; otherwise I should promote sleep among 
my hearers from the length of this paper. 

"The first named, Dr. Griffith, came to Indi- 
ana from the city of Philadelphia; he was a 
member of the Society of Friends; soon ingra- 



38 MEDICAL EI8T0R7 OF INDIANA. 

tiated himself into the confidence of the people,, 
and had a fair practice; was called in consulta- 
tion by the surrounding physicians and consid- 
ered an able and scientific physician. 

"Dr. J. T. Plummer was a student of his and 
married his daughter. He was also a Friend; 
graduated, I think, at one of the Philadelphia 
schools; was prominent as a well-educated and 
scientific physician, and at one time was con- 
sidered the best practical chemist in the city, 
for in most cases of suspected poisoning he was 
called on to analyze the contents of the stomach 
and determine the result. He died a few years 
ago from that scourge of mankind, consumption. 

"Dr. J. Yail years ago had an extensive prac- 
tice in and about Eichmond; was highly es- 
teemed as a practitioner; was a member of this 
society; contracted disease in the army (where 
he filled the position of regimental surgeon) 
from which he never fully recovered. 

"Dr. Wm. B. Smith read medicine with Dr. 
Plummer, and had a reputable practice for a 
number of years. He was a genial, social com- 
panion, but in time became intemperate, so 
much so that it damaged his practice. Yet he 
had many warm friends to the time of his death. 

"There are other medical gentlemen of Eich- 
mond yet living and whose names stand high, 
and whose biographies must be left for abler 
pens than mine. The early physicians of Cen- 
treville were Drs. Sackett, Finch, Pier, Crews, 
and Dorsey. 

"Dr. Sackett was the oldest practitioner of 
Centreville. Soon after the county seat was es- 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 39 

tablished there, he was elected recorder of the 
county, which office he continued to hold for 
many years; indeed, until his death. He was 
another victim of intemperance. 

"Dr. Finch was a reputable practitioner and 
a gentleman. He did not reside long in Centre- 
ville, and removed to Noblesville, where he died 
in a short time of phthisis. 

"Drs. Pier and Crews did not remain long in 
the city. I had but little acquaintance with 
either of them, but believe that they stood fair 
as physicians. 

"I must next speak of my friend, Dr. W. W. 
Bunnel, of Washington, who studied medicine 
with Dr. Lathrop, of Waynesville, Warren 
County, Ohio. Dr. Bunnel was my preceptor 
during the last six months of school that he ever 
taught. After qualifying himself for practice, 
he settled in 'Washington, where he resided until 
his death, which occurred in 1852. He died of 
cholera, being sick but a few hours. He was a 
cautious, rather timid, and conscientious practi- 
tioner, a man well read, and one who thought 
carefully before he acted. In 1826-7-8 he had 
much to do with that old-fashioned disease 
known by the name of milk sickness. In order 
to become acquainted with its symptoms and 
treatment, I spent some time with the Doctor in 
visiting his cases, at which time he had as many 
as five or six in the different stages of the com- 
plaint, which gave me an opportunity to learn 
what I could of the disease as it presented itself 
at that early period. It was truly a formidable 
disease and attended with great fatality. 



40 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

"A Dr. Waldo,* of Jacksonburg, seven miles 
northeast of Milton, had a larger practice in 
milk sickness than any other physician in the 
count}', and had greater notoriety for success in 
its treatment. He was one of the oldest practi- 
tioners, and was a noble specimen of a man 
physically, drank more intoxicating liquors than 
was profitable, but never to my knowledge got 
so drunk as to incapacitate him for business. 
He was immoral in many respects, very pro- 
fane, yet with all this dark catalogue he had 
many redeeming traits of character. In an early 
period of our history he represented Wayne 
County in the state legislature, when it met at 
Corydon. He was termed, in common parlance, 
a bold physician, used the lancet freely, gave 
from scruple to dram doses of calomel, etc. In 
fact, he might be called a northern Dr. Cart- 
wright, as regarded doses of medicine, without 
disparagement to that gentleman. More than 
twenty years ago he removed to a farm on White 
river, north of Muncie, where after a few years 
he died. 

"Time will not allow me to dwell longer on 
the physicians of 'lang syne/ yet I can not omit 
speaking of my friend, Dr. John Pritchett, of 
Centreville. He and I (if I mistake not) are 
the oldest practitioners of medicine now living 
in the county. I have one and a half or two 
years the precedence in time. The Doctor is an 
urbane gentleman in every sense of the term; at 
present confines himself principally to town 

* Dr. Loring A. Waldo. Died in the thirties, and is 
buried at Windsor, Randolph county. — G. W. H. K. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 41 

practice. When the gold fever was at its height 
in California, Dr. Pritchett left home and busi- 
ness in search of 'filthy lucre/ and in a few 
years returned, worsted pecuniarily. Early in 
the late war he was commissioned as regimental 
surgeon of the Fifty-seventh Eegiment of Indi- 
ana Volunteers, which position he filled with 
honor and credit to the close of the war. 

"The early physicians of Connersville, Fay- 
ette County, to the best of my recollection, were 
Drs. Moffet, Gale, and Miller; a little later we 
had Drs. Brown and Mason, who were partners 
in the practice of medicine for some years." 

Dr. Joel Pennington (1799-1887) was born in Hunting- 
ton county, Pennsylvania, and, after a medical preparation, 
located in Milton in 1825. I introduce him as deserving 
a place in Indiana medical history, if for no other reason 
than that he was a pioneer physician and contributed the 
above article. He has told his own story in simple lan- 
guage. He was president of the State Medical Society in 
1873. He practiced medicine at Milton for more than half 
a century, and linally, when accident reduced him to penury, 
and paralysis rendered him helpless, charitable friends sup- 
plied his needs and made him comfortable. — G. W. H. K. 



CHAPTER VI. 



Medical Reminiscences of Madison. 

The late Dr. W. T. S. Comett, of Madison, 
narrates some interesting reminiscences in the 
Transactions of the Indiana State Medical So- 
ciety, 1874, p. 30, from which the following ex- 
tracts are copied : 

"I came to the State of Indiana in the spring 
of 1824 for the purpose of practicing medicine 
and located temporarily in the County of Dear- 
born. In the spring of 1825 I moved to Ver- 
sailles, Ripley County, where most of my pro- 
fessional life has been spent. On coming into 
the state I was informed that the law required 
me to be licensed to practice by the society of 
the district in which I lived; otherwise I would 
be indicted and fined. 

EARLY STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY. 

"Each judicial constituted a medical district, 
and there was a state medical society made up 
of delegates elected annually by the district so- 
cieties. I called on the censors of the society, 
satisfied them in regard to my qualifications, 
and received from them a permit to practice till 
the next meeting of the society, which was held 
at Lawrenceburg. At the meeting of the society 
I was admitted to membership and received a 
diploma according to law. At that meeting, or 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 43 

the next, I have forgotten which, I was elected a 
delegate to represent the society at the next 
meeting of the state society to be held at In- 
dianapolis. I prepared a professional essay and 
started for Indianapolis on horseback, and ac- 
complished the journey (65 miles) in three days 
of hard travel through deep mud and over bro- 
ken causeways. The president of the state so- 
ciety was Dr. Samuel Grant Mitchell, of In- 
dianapolis, an elderly gentleman, somewhat cor- 
pulent and short of breath from asthma, per- 
haps. The society met at Dr. Mitchell's office. 
There were but few in attendance. Their names 
were as follows : Drs. Mitchell, Dunlap, Coe 
and Mothershead, of Indianapolis; Dr. Sexton, 
of Eushville; Dr. Bell, of Shelbyville, and my- 
self, from Versailles. Dr. Mothershead was then 
a very young man and a partner to Dr. Mitchell. 
"The president read an address on the occa- 
sion, and, on getting about half way through it, 
found that he had lost a sheet and became much 
embarrassed. I finally moved that the lost sheet 
be stricken out, which was carried unanimously, 
and he proceeded with the remainder of the ad- 
dress. Finding that no one but myself had pre- 
pared an essay for the occasion, I proved too 
diffident to produce it and took it home without 
reading. Afterward I prepared an abridgement 
of it, which was published in Dr. Drake's jour- 
nal at Cincinnati. In the print I found numer- 
ous typographical errors, which annoyed me not 
a little. The meeting to which I have referred 
was the last of the state medical society, as pro- 



44 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

vided for by law, the politicians and people hav- 
ing adopted the idea of free trade in medical 
matters, which seems likely to continue for all 
time to come. So be it. If rational medicine 
can not take care of itself let it perish. I am 
now, so far as I know, the only surviving mem- 
ber of the original state medical society. 

"For a number of years I was the only physi- 
cian in Eipley County; had to travel all over it 
on horseback by day and by night, without re- 
gard to weather or remuneration for services. 
Occasionally I found myself lost in the woods at 
night, and would have to tie up my horse and 
make my bed on the ground until morning. The 
nearest physicians with whom I was acquainted 
were Drs. Perceval and Ferris, of Lawrence- 
burg; Dr. Torbet, of Wilmington; Drs. Haynes 
and James, of Eising Sun; Drs. Watts, Howes 
and Canby, of Madison; Dr. Peabody, of Ver- 
non; Dr. Hartclay, of Greensburg; Dr. Oliver, 
of Brookville, and Dr. Gillespie, on his farm 
twenty miles south of me, all of whom are in 
their graves save Drs. Watts and James, who 
have long since retired from business. I can 
only make honorable mention of these physi- 
cians, having no data upon which to found bio- 
graphical sketches of them which would be re- 
liable. At the period of my advent into pro- 
fessional life (50 years since) medical books 
were very scarce, particularly so in the West. 
The physician who could afford one work on 
each branch of the profession was considered 
well off. The book stores in Cincinnati, in 1824, 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 45 

could not furnish a work of each branch of the 
profession. On going there to purchase my 
library, I could not find a work on materia 
medica for sale in the place, and had to appeal 
to a young physician who had lately arrived 
from Philadelphia, who was so obliging as to 
sell me the work of Murray with notes by Chap- 
man. 

"In the year 1843 my friend, Dr. Charles 
Parry, late of Indianapolis, read a paper on the 
treatment of congestive fever with quinin, be- 
fore the Academy of Medicine at Philadelphia, 
which attracted much attention, and he was 
invited to repeat it to a fuller house, which he 
did. After this, numerous essays soon made 
their appearance in favor of the treatment of 
remittent fever with quinin, and the former 
practice was soon superseded. 

THE EARLY SURGERY OF INDIANA. 

"In surgery, as well as in medicine, there 
has been an advance within my remembrance. I 
knew a surgeon half a century ago who made it 
a rule to trephine in every case of fracture of the 
skull, whether there was depression of the bone 
or not. He boasted that he had bone buttons 
enough, bored from the skulls of his patients, to 
furnish a full set for a double-breasted coat. 
Fractured skulls were more common then than 
now, the temperance reformation not having 
commenced, or even been seriously thought of, 
save by one man, and that man was Dr. Benja- 



4G MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

min Rush (see his great address on the abuse of 
ardent spirits, Volume I of his work, A. D. 
1818). In 1829 Dr. Daniel Drake made a most 
powerful and eloquent appeal to the public on 
this subject in an address delivered before the 
Hamilton County Agricultural Society, which 
did much good in the West in stirring up or- 
ganized action against this most monstrous of 
all evils on earth. 

"Half a century ago, surgeons, and the people 
generally, practiced blood-letting for almost 
every injury. Sir Charles Bell Avas among the 
first to denounce this practice in concussion of 
the brain. He said, in such a case, the surgeon 
would say bleed, and the landlady would say 
give him a glass of brand}^, and that he (Sir 
Charles) would in this case take sides with the 
landlady. Half a century ago I have seen lint 
dipped in whisky used with good results as an 
application to wounds. The lint should never 
be allowed to get dry. I have used this dressing 
more or less throughout the whole of my profes- 
sional life, and have never seen erysipelas occur 
in a wound where it was used. Its action is 
threefold, as it stimulates the injured vessels, 
tends to ease pain, and, lastly, prevents the de- 
composition of purulent matter, which is poison- 
ous. 

"The greatest advantage of the metallic su- 
ture over thread is that thread absorbs pus, 
which decomposes in it and becomes poisonous, 
while metal absorbs nothing. The tincture of 
arnica has acquired a great reputation as an 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 47 

applicant in contusions. It is the whisky, and 
not the arnica, which is entitled to whatever 
credit is due in this case. Whisky is sometimes 
good as a medicine if properly used. I have 
never, and never will, so use it as to turn a sick 
man into a drunkard." 



CHAPTER VII. 



Early State Medical Society. — Historical 

Xotes of Indianapolis. — The Medical 

College at Laporte. 

In the Transactions of the Indiana 
State Medical Society for 1874, p. 26, the late 
Dr. W. B. Fletcher, of Indianapolis, records 
some interesting history of the "Early State 
Medical Society," from which the following 
extracts are taken: 

"A judicial was considered a medical district. 
A district medical society was formed in June, 
1817, in Vincennes, and at a meeting of the 
same in May, 1818, delegates were appointed to 
meet with similar delegations of other district 
societies and form a state medical society. F. S. 
Shald and Phillip Bates were such delegates. 
The state society was not formed, however, until 
1820, when it met in Corydon, then the capital 
of the state. Afterward, in 1826, it held its 
meeting in Indianapolis, the seat of government 
having been removed thither. These facts are 
obtained from the Western Censor and other pa- 
pers of the period, extracts from which we give: 

"The Medical Society of the State of Indiana 
met at Corydon on the 10th. The following gen- 
tlemen were elected officers for the ensuing year, 
viz.: 

"President — Asahel Clapp, New Albany. Vice- 
President — S. Everts Union County. Secretary 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 49 

— L. Dunlap, Indianapolis. Treasurer — D. B. 
Mitchell, Corydon. Censors — David Oliver, 
Brookville; G. L. Murdoch, Brookville; C. Ful- 
lerton, Princeton. 

"January 4th, 1823.— At the fourth annual 
meeting of the Medical Society, which took place 
at Corydon on the 11th ult., the following gen- 
tlemen were elected officers for the ensuing year : 

"President — Dr. D. G. Mitchell. Vice-Presi- 
dent — Dr. S. Everts. Secretary — Dr. J. Fowler. 
Treasurer — Dr. Snyder. Censors — Drs. J. E. 
Bush, Snyder, and A. Clapp. 

FIFTH DISTRICT MEDICAL SOCIETY. 

"First Meeting at Indianapolis. — Pursuant to 
a resolution of the State Medical Society a num- 
ber of the practicing physicians of the Fifth 
Judicial District met at Indianapolis on Mon- 
day, the 1st day of May, 1826, and proceeded to 
business. Dr. Isaac Coe was chosen chairman, 
and K. A. Scudder, secretary. The following 
officers were chosen for the ensuing year: 

"President — Dr. Isaac Coe. Secretary — Dr. 
Livingston Dunlap. Treasurer — Dr. K. A. 
Scudder. Censors — Drs. Laughlin, Sexton, and 
Morris. Delegates — Drs. S. G. Mitchell, Isaac 
Coe, and Sexton. 

"Resolved, That each annual meeting of this 
society be on the first Monday in May, and the 
semiannual meeting on the day preceding the 
meeting of the State Medical Society. 

"The society then adjourned. 

"Isaac Coe, President. 

"K. A. Scudder, Secretary" 



VJBDWAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

FROM HISTORICAL NOTES ON INDIANA, PUBLISHED 

AND COMMUNICATED TO THE GAZETTE, 

INDIANAPOLIS, MARCH G, 1822, BY 

DR. S. G. MITCHELL. 

"March 6, 1822. — The predisposing influ- 
ences that caused the citizens of Indianapolis to 
become a prey to intermittent and remittent 
fevers were numerous: the thickness of the for- 
est, with an unusual wet or damp season; a 
numerous concourse of strangers crowded to- 
gether; great fatigue of moving and anxiety of 
mind; uncomfortable accommodations; liberal 
use of fresh meat, more especially fish, which was 
used in great abundance. The disease may have 
existed in a certain constitution of the atmos- 
phere, which caused the marsh miasma or dele- 
terious effluvia to be worse on the margin of the 
water-course, which was a fact, and in the east 
it prevailed more generally than in the west. 
Those who escaped lived off from the river. Out 
of 1,000 souls in town on the donation, and the 
farms surrounding the town, at least 900 sick- 
ened during the prevailing epidemic. Twenty- 
five deaths occurred before the last of October. 
About that period the place was restored to 
health. Its fatality was principally amongst 
children, but the town will long lament over the 
loss of some of its most favorite citizens. The 
symptoms that marked our epidemic were such 
as medical writers recognize in the introduction 
of common violent intermittent and remittent 
fevers; debility, languor, yawning and stretch- 
ing, with a listlessness and inaction to motion; 
coldness then commences in the extremities and 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF' INDIANA. 51 

soon covers the body with sensations, to the pa- 
tient, of cold water being poured over them. 
In some cases the coldness only produced chills; 
in other cases it produced universal convulsive 
shaking. It has, then, improperly been called 
ague. Very few cases occurred that we might 
call a well-defined case of ague and fever. The 
symptoms that succeeded the cold stage were a 
dry, burning, hot skin, with a red, tense and 
swollen appearance; pains violent and shifting 
to different parts of the system; the pulse quick, 
but not universally strong; the bowels consti- 
pated, and great thirst. After some hours of 
pain and suffering, a perspiration became uni- 
versal, the pulse diminished in frequency and 
became full and free, and all the functions of 
the system were restored to their natural order. 
The species of fever differed in different pa- 
tients, and in the same patient, in different at- 
tacks, sometimes a quotidian, sometimes a ter- 
tian, and at other times assumed a quartan type. 
It was a disease that readily yielded to appro- 
priate remedies, and as readily again recurred. 
During the hot stage, the physician's object was 
to promote perspiration, and to accomplish that 
object he selected such internal and external 
remedies as he thought advisable. Afterward 
the stomach and bowels were well prepared for 
the reception of Peruvian bark — it was genuine, 
and given in spirits, in large quantities — a valu- 
able medicine, and rarely disappointed the phy- 
sician's expectation. The disposition the fever 
had to recur again and again, and the universal 



52 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

attack of the disease, and the few deaths in pro- 
portion to the sick, was a remarkable circum- 
stance." 

The Medical College at Laporte. 

Dr. Tompkins Higday, formerly of Laporte, 
records in the Transactions of 1874, p. 24, some 
historical facts concerning the Indiana Medical 
College at Laporte, Ind., from 1842 to 1850, 
from which the following quotations are made: 

"Daniel Meeker, the originator of the college, 
was born in Schoharie County, New York, Dec. 
17, 1806; attended his first course of lectures at 
Fairfield, N". Y. ; graduated at the close of his 
second year, at Willoughby, Ohio, and located in 
Laporte in May, 1835. He first organized a 
spring course of lectures, which was given dur- 
ing March and April, 1842. A charter for the 
Laporte University was then secured, and the 
first regular course of medical lectures began the 
following autumn, thus : 

"Spring Course, Eight Weeks. — Daniel 
Meeker, M.D., anatomy and surgery. Jacob P. 
Andrew, M.D., obstetrics and diseases of women 
and children. Mne matriculates. 

"1842-3. The regular courses were sixteen 
weeks. Daniel Meeker, M.D., anatomy and sur- 
gery. Franklin Hunt, M.D., materia medica and 
botany. Jacob P. Andrew, M.D., obstetrics and 
diseases of women and children. Gustavus A. 
Rose, M.D., theory and practice. John B. Mies, 
A.M., chemistry. Thirty matriculates; one grad- 
uate. 

1843-4. The same, except Jacob P. Andrews, 
M.D., in place of G. A. Pose, M.D., theory and 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 53 

practice. Forty-three matriculates; four grad- 
uates. 

"1844-45. Daniel Meeker, M.D., surgery. 
George W. Eichards, M.D., St. Charles, 111., an- 
atomy. Moses L. Knapp, M.D., of Chicago, 
materia medica. Nichols Hard, M.D., of Au- 
rora, 111., obstetrics and diseases of women and 
children. Daniel E. Brown, M.D., Schoolcraft, 
Mich., theory and practice. John B. Nile?, A.M., 
chemistry. John L. Torrey, M.D., of Elgin, 111., 
demonstrator. Sixty- three matriculates; ten 
graduates. 

"1845-6. Daniel Meeker, M.D., anatomy and 
physiology. Azariah B. Shipman, M.D., of 
Cortland, N. Y., surgery. Moses L. Knapp, 
M.D., materia medica. Nicholas Hard, M.D., 
obstetrics and diseases of women and children. 
George W. Eichards, M.D., theory and practice. 
John B. Niles, A.M., chemistry. John L. Tor- 
rey, M.D., demonstrator. Eighty matriculates; 
17 graduates. 

"1846-7. The same corps of professors. Ninety 
matriculates; 20 graduates. 

"1847-8. Daniel Meeker, M.D., anatomy and 
physiology. A. B. Shipman, M.D., surgery. 
Elizur Deming, M.D., of Lafayette, Ind., materia 
medica. (The lectures were given by the fac- 
ulty.) Theory and Practice. Nicholas Hard, 
M.D., obstetrics and diseases of women and chil- 
dren. Tompkins Higday, M.D., adjunct profes- 
sor of anatomy. John B. Niles, A.M,. chemistry. 
One hundred and one matriculates; 21 grad- 
uates. 



54 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA, 

"1848-9. Daniel Meeker, M.D., anatomy. A. 
B. Shipman, M.D., surgery. Elizur Deming, 
M.D., theory and practice. J. Adams Allen, 
A.M., M.D., Kalamazoo, Mich., materia medica, 
therapeutics and medical jurisprudence. Nich- 
olas Hard, M.D., obstetrics and diseases of 
women and children. T. Higday, M.D., physiol- 
ogy and general pathology. John B. Niles, A.M., 
chemistry. George W. Lee, M.D., demonstrator. 
Ninety-three matriculates; 30 graduates. 

"1849-50. Same corps of professors as former 
years. George W. Lee, M.D., demonstrator. Six- 
ty-five matriculates; 24 graduates. 

"Spring Course at Lafayette, Eight Weeks. — 
Elizur Deming, M.D., theory and practice. T. 
Higda}', M.D., anatomy and physiology. Daniel 
Meeker, M.D., surgery. J. Adams Allen, A.M., 
M.D., materia medica, etc. E. T. Brown, chem- 
istry. Jos. M. Havens, M.D., demonstrator. Nine 
matriculates; 4 graduates. 

"Many of the graduates of the school have be- 
come prominent practitioners, a few of whom are 
Dr. Evans, Evansville, Wis.; Dr. Lee, Shulls- 
burg, Wis.; Dr. Brown, Madison, Wis.; Dr. 
Green, Marengo, 111.; Dr. C. Hard, Aurora, 111.; 
Dr. Young, Chicago; and in Indiana, Dr. 
Humphrey, South Bend; Dr. Butterworth, 
Mishawaka; Dr. Lomax, Marion; Dr. Austin, 
Hecla; Dr. Pettijohn, Deming; Dr. Baker, 
Stockwell; Dr. Webb, Franklin; Dr. Wishard, 
Greenwood; and Dr. Evarts, of the Insane Asy- 
lum, Indianapolis. Three of the graduates only, 
so far as I know, have been elected to professor- 
ships, viz. : Wells B. Marsh, to the chair of 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 55 

chemistry, Keokuk College, Iowa; S. S. Todd, 
to the chair of theory and practice, Kansas City 
Medical College, Missouri; and T. Higday, to 
the chairs of physiology and general pathology, 
and of anatomy, in the Indiana Medical College, 
LaPorte, Ind. 

"In 1848 the charter was amended, changing 
the name from "The Medical Department of the 
Laporte University" to "The Indiana Medical 
College." The spring course was given at Laf- 
ayette, at the instance of Dr. Deming, whose ob- 
ject was to arouse sufficient interest there to en- 
able him to erect a suitable building, and then 
have the college transferred from Laporte to 
Lafayette. Failing in this, he gave two courses 
in the Medical College at Indianapolis. At his 
death, I have been informed, he left a work on 
theory and practice in an advanced state of prep- 
aration for publication. 

"Dr. Meeker gave one course on anatomy at 
Indianapolis and five at Keokuk, Iowa, after the 
discontinuance of the Laporte school. Dr. 
Meeker is a thorough anatomist, a bold, success- 
ful operator in surgery; a man of iron will, 
great physical endurance, and withal a firm be- 
liever in the resurrection of the dead; just the 
man to start successfully a medical college in a 
small town. 

" 'Old Death,' as the students familiarly called 
him, never failed to keep the dissecting-room 
abundantly supplied with fresh subjects." 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Early Medical History of Terre Haute. — 

Proceedings of the First Medical 

District Society (Vincennes). 

The late Dr. Ezra React, of Terre Haute, in 
the Transactions for 1874, p. 45, has given some 
valuable historical facts of the early history of 
that city, from which we make the following ex- 
tracts : 

"I settled in Terre Haute in the year 1843, 
as a practicing physician and surgeon, having 
been invited here by Dr. Ebenezer Daniels and 
tendered an equal partnership in his business. I 
had, at that time, some professional experience, 
having graduated at the Cincinnati Medical Col- 
lege (Drake's College) in 1836 and served four 
years in the military service of Texas — three 
years as staff surgeon of Gen. Felix Huston and 
one year as fleet surgeon upon the ship of war 
Zavalla. 

"The prominent physicians of Terre Haute, in 
the year I settled here, 1843, were Drs. Ebenezer 
Daniels, Septer Patrick, Edward V. Ball and 
Azel Holmes. 

"Drs. Irish and Brooks were here, young men, 
and some others not now remembered, but within 
a few months they sought locations elsewhere. 
Just prior to that time Dr. John W. Hitchcock 
had left, having very creditably sustained himself 
in his profession for several years. He was the 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 57 

pupil of Dr. Valentine Mott of New York, was 
a good surgeon, had professional merit and was 
recommended to this community by his pre- 
ceptor; was a brother-in-law of Dr. G. W. Mears 
of Indianapolis. 

"Dr. Daniels was a man of learning; a grad- 
uate of the Jefferson Medical College, Philadel- 
phia; ambitious, industrious and jealous of his 
rights. He had studied the profession with great 
care; practiced it with care, and brought to his 
aid judgment, skill and learning. He was a good 
surgeon and partial to that branch of the profes- 
sion. I have rarely seen any one who could more 
readily bring to light latent difficulties at the 
bedside, or more skillfully suggest proper reme- 
dies. It is no disparagement to the most learned 
physicians of Indiana, at that time, to say that 
Dr. Daniels was in all respects their equal. He 
died of pneumonia in 1847, aged about 56 years. 

"Dr. Patrick was a kind-hearted, blunt, honest 
physician, originally from the State of New 
York; had practiced medicine on the Wabash 
and in this place until his head was whitened, 
enjoying the confidence and respect of his med- 
ical brethren and the entire community; always 
poor, always industrious and faithful to the sick, 
and always a good physician. He attended one 
course of lectures in New York; was a careful 
observer and, from long practice, was skilled in 
the diseases of this locality. In the California 
gold excitement he went there, like many others, 
only to find the same obstacles he had left be- 
hind. He died in that state in the year 1858, 
aged 78 vears. 



KBDWAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

"Dr. Ball, a native of New Jersey, was an ex- 
cellent and highly esteemed citizen and a very 
careful and industrious physician, but lacked 
confidence in his own judgment and in the cer- 
tainty of medicine, and was consequently vacil- 
lating in his opinions and practice. He com- 
manded the confidence of his patients, and for 
more than forty years enjoyed a very large prac- 
tice. He died in the year 1873, aged 73 years. 

"Dr. Azel Holmes was born in Herkimer coun- 
ty, New York, in the year 1804; studied med- 
icine with the celebrated Dr. Massey, and grad- 
uated in medicine in one of the New England 
schools. He enjoyed an extensive practice in this 
city for several j-ears; had cultivated and care- 
ful ability; was exact and precise, and a most 
excellent physician. He went to California in the 
year 1850 with his brother-in-law, Joseph 0. 
Jones, Esq., of this city, and died in Sacramento 
City the same year. 

"The picture will not be very flattering, to 
those of pecuniary tastes and desires about enter- 
ing the profession, when told that many years of 
toil and drudgery had not given to any of these 
physicians estates exceeding in value $5,000, Dr. 
Ball excepted. 

"It is due to my dead confreres to say that 
they were temperate, charitable and exemplary, 
and in all of their professional obligations scru- 
pulously exact. As physicians and citizens their 
lives were without blemish and without stain. 

"Dr. Henry D. Lee, a native of Virginia, set- 
tled, in early times, on a farm ten miles from 
Terre Haute and near Lockport, this county. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 59 

He was a good physician, without pretension, 
and at all times commanded the esteem of med- 
ical men and the universal respect of his neigh- 
bors. He was a Christian gentleman, and through 
life was occasionally in the habit of preaching 
in his own neighborhood and abroad. He died 
in 1871, aged 66 years, on his birthday. 

"Dr. Hamilton, of Prairieton, in this county, 
was a graduate of one of the Philadelphia schools 
of medicine, and was eminently fitted, by educa- 
tion and habit, for a professional position, but 
died young — in the year 1851. 

"I have named all of the prominent medical 
men in this county thirty years ago, not one of 
whom now lives. Of all these, I am alone left. 

MEDICAL SOCIETIES. 

"When I came here I found a medical society 
in existence which, at one time, had created a 
good deal of professional interest, but was then 
languishing and not well attended. Subsequently 
the society was reorganized and called the Vigo 
County Medical Society. The society has never 
excited among its members the interest it should, 
and generally has been in a sickly condition. 

"In the year 1817, the next year after the set- 
tlement of Terre Haute and five years before that 
of Indianapolis, a medical society was formed at 
Vincennes, embracing in territory this and the 
county of Parke, north of us, or a distance north 
of Vincennes of ninety miles. Its very first mem- 
bers were men of distinguished character, and of 
earnest professional zeal, as may be known from 
extracts from their original proceedings, the pa- 



GO MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

pers now on my table and kindly furnished by 
Mrs. Shuler, the widow of one of its most dis- 
tinguished members. 

"Dr. John W. Davis, of Carlisle, Sullivan 
county, afterward a member of Congress, speaker 
of the House of Eepresentatives, minister to 
China, and governor of Oregon, was one of its 
early members. But Dr. Lawrence S. Shuler, 
twice elected president of the society, sent as del- 
egate to the first state medical society, and a can- 
didate for Congress when this congressional dis- 
trict embraced a greater area of territory than 
one-third of Indiana, deserves more than a pass- 
ing notice, for his surgical skill has been trans- 
mitted from sire to son to the present time. He 
was a native of the State of New York, born in 
1790, and was a graduate of the College of Phy- 
sicians and Surgeons, New York. One of his 
tickets admitting him to lectures is before me, of 
date 1815; also his diploma, placed at my dis- 
posal by his excellent wife. The doctor was an 
earnest, scientific. and skillful surgeon. I enclose 
his own notes of a false joint successfully treated. 
He operated at one time upon a little girl, aged 
11 years, for congenital blindness, with perfect 
success. The child stayed at his house several 
months, and when vision was restored, Mrs. 
Shuler states, she was almost bewildered with 
joy at the wonders before her. Colors were with 
difficulty learned, and her friends only known, 
for a long time by the sound of their voices. When 
her father came for her he was a stranger to her 
eyes but a father when he spoke. He also re- 
moved a very large abdominal tumor from a lady 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 6i 

in the seventh month of gestation. She recov- 
ered, gave birth to a healthy child, and is still 
living near Vincennes. 

"I have repeatedly heard medical men, con- 
temporaneous with the doctor, speak of this oper- 
ation as meritorious and capital, but have not 
heard its character described, except that it was 
within the abdominal cavity and was considered 
hazardous and difficult. For several years he 
commanded the surgery of a very large scope of 
the country, and I have no doubt was eminently 
and justly entitled to it. He was father of the 
warden of the State Penitentiary at Jefferson- 
ville, and brother-in-law of our worthy citizen, 
N". F. Cunningham, former state treasurer. Dr. 
Shuler practiced medicine in this city four or 
five years prior to his death, which took place in 
Vincennes in 1827 while on a visit there for a 
change and health, aged 37 years. He contracted 
a cold from exposure in visiting Indianapolis the 
previous winter, which settled on his lungs and 
terminated in consumption. Dr. Shuler trans- 
ferred the Vincennes First District Society to 
this place when he came here, in 1822 or 1823, 
and kept it in a flourishing condition during his 
life. 

"Dr. Charles B. Modesett was one of the earli- 
est, if not the first, physician who settled on 
Fort Harrison Prairie, the prairie on which 
Terre Haute is located. At that early day the 
Indians greatly exceeded the whites in numbers 
and, for safety, most persons settled at or near 
Fort Harrison, then a military post, three miles 
north of Terre Haute, the Indians having re- 



68 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

cently been hostile and in the interest or service 
of the British Government. Dr. Modesett was 
born in Prince William county, Virginia, in the 
year 1784, and graduated at Prince William Col- 
lege in his twenty-fourth year, about the year 
1808; moved to Ohio, near Cincinnati, in 1814, 
and to Fort Harrison in 1816. He attended the 
first sale of lots in Terre Haute in that year, and 
shortly afterward built one of the first log houses 
in the new town and commenced the practice of 
medicine. He died in Januan*, 1848, aged 64 
years. Dr. Modesett was, in manners, a courtly, 
dignified Virginia gentleman, and in all his 
intercourse with the pioneer settlers never lost 
sight of his self-respect and polite manners. He 
was a diligent and faithful physician, enjoyed an 
extensive practice, and deservedly ranked with 
the most eminent of the profession in western 
Indiana. 

"Dr. William Clark, a military surgeon at Fort 
Harrison, practiced medicine among the early 
settlers for a few years, and moved somewhere 
near Eugene, on the Wabash, about the year 
1824. 

"Dr. Aspinwall, from the State of New York, 
settled here in 1817.and died in 1824. 

"Dr. Hotchkiss, from Connecticut, came here 
in the year 1822 and died in 1830; and Dr. 
Turnce, from the same state, came in 1822 and 
died in 1832. 

"All of these physicians are highly spoken of 
by the early settlers as skilled in the profession, 
industrious and of good habits. Most of these 
young men had been well educated in the eastern 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. G3 

states; were enterprising and hopeful, and came 
to a new country to toil for a few years and die. 

"All of the above-named physicians belonged 
to the First District Medical Society at Vin- 
cennes or Terre Haute. 

"I have thus completed, as well as I could with 
the material at my disposal, this imperfect sketch 
of the pioneer physicians of this part of the Wa- 
bash. It is the only attempt known to me of 
preserving even their names as a class. 

COPY FROM ORIGINAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST 
MEDICAL DISTRICT SOCIETY, INDIANA 

"Vincennes, June 2, 1817. — In conformity to 
an act of the Legislature, passed the 24th day 
of December, 1816, entitled an "Act to Eegulate 
the Practice of Physic and Surgery," the follow- 
ing censors appointed by said act met at the 
house of Peter Jones, in the town of Vincennes, 
on the first Monday in June, 1817, viz.: Elias 
McNamee, Jacob Key Kendall, David M. Hale 
and Thomas Polke, secretary. Board adjourned 
until 6 o'clock p. m. the same day. 

"Board met pursuant to adjournment and 
proceeded to an examination of Wm. C. Whit- 
tlesey, Philip Barton, William Clark, Lawrence 
S. Shuler and John L. McCullough for the prac- 
tice of physic and surgery. Ordered that the 
same be licensed. Board adjourned until June 
3. at 3 o'clock p. m., at the house of C. Graeter, 
Vincennes. 

"At this meeting, June 3, 1817, on motion, it 
was 



64 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

"Resolved, That the medical censors and li- 
censed physicians of the First Medical District 
proceed, according to law, to organize the board 
for said district. 

"On balloting for officers for the board Elia9 
McNamee was duly elected president; L. S. 
Shuler, secretary; David M. Hale, treasurer, and 
Key Kendall, Shuler, Barton, Polke and McCul- 
Jough, censors. 

"At a meeting of this medical organization at 
Vincennes, May, 1818, on motion, it was 

"Resolved, That discretionary power be given 
to the president to appoint three persons on be- 
half of this board, to meet delegates appointed 
by the other district societies, at such time and 
place as shall be agreed upon for the formation 
of a State Medical Society. 

"This is probably the first organization in the 
State of Indiana for the purpose of forming a 
state medical society. At this meeting f a letter 
from Dr. Lyman Spalding, of New York, was 
read and laid before the board.' At a subse- 
quent meeting of the society in November, 1818, 
Dr. Hale presented a letter from Dr. Lyman 
Spaulding, of New York, together with a circu- 
lar letter from the corresponding committee, of 
New York, relative to a National Pharmacopeia, 
which was, on motion, approved. 

"To beginnings like these we are indebted for 
our present U. S. Dispensatory. We can scarcely 
appreciate our obligations to these noble and 
thoughtful pioneers of medicine, laboring among 
poor backwoodsmen in a sparsely settled country 
on the verge of civilization. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIA* L. 65 

"The proceedings of the First District Medical 
Society show an earnest and honest determina- 
tion to protect the purity of the profession and 
the lives of the community by rejecting candi- 
dates unfitted or unprepared to practice medi- 
cine, and by pursuing legal means to suppress 
quackery. At the semi-annual meeting at Vin- 
cennes, May, 1819, two candidates were presented 
for examination and membership rejected. At 
this meeting, on motion, it was 

"Resolved, That two delegates be chosen to 
meet in convention with delegates from the other 
district societies for the purpose of forming a 
State Medical Society, and to hold such corre- 
spondence with the members of the district board 
as they may think proper in order to form the 
said society. On counting the ballots it appeared 
that L. S. Shuler and Philip Barton were elected 
delegates. 

"On motion, 

"Resolved, That Elias McNamee, L. S. Shuler, 
Hiram Decker, Philip Barton and 'William Whit- 
tlesey be a committee to choose a delegate to 
meet in convention for the purpose of forming 
a District Pharmacopeia, and for a general cor- 
responding committee. 

"On motion, 

"Resolved, That the corresponding committee 
be instructed to accept (if in their opinion it 
should be expedient) the proposals of Dr. J. 
Smith, United States agent for vaccination, for 
establishing a National Vaccine Institution. 

"On motion of Dr. Shuler, it was 

"Resolved, That the constitution be amended 
by the addition of the following article, 'No per- 
son shall be admitted to an examination before 



6G MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

the medical censors without producing satisfac- 
tory evidence of having studied physic and sur- 
gery for the full term of three years.' 

"Resolved, That it shall be the duty of the sec- 
retary to pursue such measures as may be neces- 
sary to carry into effect the law regulating the 
practice of physic and present to the Grand Jury, 
or to the prosecuting attorney of each county in 
the district, all unlicensed practitioners of med- 
icine. 

"But few medical societies anywhere can show 
a reference to so many important matters as were 
acted upon at this meeting. This society was the 
'Mecca' at whose shrine, in spring-time and in 
autumn, the professional pioneers of our state 
came from the hamlet, from the prairie, and 
from the shadowy and lonely forest, to offer their 
devotions to medicine and kindred sciences. The 
paths leading hither were untrodden. They were 
long and weary, but at the end their noble pur- 
poses were strengthened and their faith and 
knowledge renewed. I personally knew Dr. Jo- 
seph Hopkins, of Illinois, long an eminent and 
useful practitioner of medicine in that state, who 
was a member of this society and regularly at- 
tended its meetings, although to do so he had to 
ride 100 miles on horseback." 

FALSE JOINT — BY DR. L. S. SHULER.* 

"Jonathan Eathbone, aged 28 years, had his 
humerus fractured, near the middle, in Febru- 
ary, 1822. Nine months afterward no union had 

* Transactions of the Indiana State' Medical Society, 
1874, p. 57. Besides the historical interest of this case, it 
possesses a surgical significance of value. Dr. Read has 
mentioned several other interesting surgical operations per- 
formed by Dr. Shuler. — G. W. H. K. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. C7 

taken place. His surgeon advised sawing off the 
ends of the fractured portions. I was called upon 
to perform the operation. The fracture was 
oblique, a sharp point of the lower portion pro- 
jecting upward, near the biceps muscle, and ap- 
parently in contact with the integuments. The 
space between the broken ends was at least half 
an inch, filled with a fleshy or elastic substance. 
No exertions could j extricate the oblique point 
from its position in the muscles or bring the 
bones in complete apposition. I advised the plan 
of Dr. Physick, and while passing the seton 
needle, to practice the suggestions of Charles 
Bell, to cut and break the callus of the broken 
bones. A strong needle, nine inches long, its 
point for three inches shaped like a common lan- 
cet but not sharp, with an eye sufficiently large 
to admit a couple of skeins of silk (the space be- 
tween the flattened part of the needle's eye was 
round), was used to perform the operation. An 
incision was made through the integuments with 
a scalpel immediately over the projecting point 
of bone; the needle was introduced, and was 
freely and forcibly pushed in different directions 
so as to completely disorganize the structure be- 
tween and on the ends of the bones. The seton 
shortly produced a very free discharge, but the 
patient, receiving no benefit, withdrew it at the 
end of five months. Both the patient and the at- 
tending surgeon had reluctantly consented to the 
operation, consequently but little attention was 
paid to the arm. It had, during the larger part 
of the time that the seton remained, been suf- 
ered to swing, not being retained in its place as 
in case of recent fracture. Two months after 
removing the seton, the patient observed that the 
motion at the false joint was not as free and ex- 



68 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

tensive as formerly, which induced him to- retain 
the arm in its natural position by splints and 
bandages, and, in some seven or eight weeks 
after, a complete union was formed. 

"This case, while it proves the value of the 
practice, which originated with our celebrated 
countryman, Dr. Physick, likewise furnishes us 
with reason to believe that the suggestions of Mr. 
Bell, to cut and penetrate the ends of the bones, 
may assist in performing a cure in cases where 
the seton alone would fail, and that in all cases 
it would hasten the process. Another fact of no 
less importance is that the continuance of the 
seton may succeed at a much greater length of 
time than has been usually practiced." 



CHAPTEK IX. 



The Central Medical College. — Bobbs Free 
Dispensary. — Indianapolis City Hos- 
pital. — Medical Societies. 

Dr. Thad M. Stevens, who was formerly sec- 
retary of the State Board of Health, has contrib- 
uted to the Transactions of the State Society, 
1874, p. 17, historical matter of sufficient interest 
to be used in this paper. He says : 

"In the fall of 1849 Central Medical College, 
located at Indianapolis, Ind., held its opening ex- 
ercises. This school was a branch of the Asbury 
University, of Greencastle, Ind., the trustees of 
which acted in the same capacity to the college. 
The professors who were elected to the various 
chairs were: John S. Bobbs, Indianapolis, anat- 
omy; Dr. Baker, Cincinnati, surgery; L. Dun- 
lap, M.D., Indianapolis, theory and practice; 
Charles G. Downey, Greencastle, chemistry; 
James Harrison, Indianapolis, materia medica 
and therapeutics. 

"In the summer of 1850 the Medical School 
of Laporte, Ind., having suspended, two who were 
engaged in teaching there were elected to chairs 
in the Indiana Central — Dr. Deming to the 
newly-formed chair of institutes of medicine and 
general pathology, and Dr. Meeker to fill the 
chair of anatomy, Professor Baker having re- 
signed the chair of surgery, and Professor Bobbs 
having been elected thereto. 



70 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

'*The last sessions of this school were held in 
1S51-2, at which time, in the wisdom of the trus- 
tees of the parent institution, an attempt was 
made to reorganize according to some pet scheme, 
but the school was exploded and went to pieces. 
From that time until the fall of 1869 a hiatus 
existed, wherein were no medical schools, or, in- 
deed, an)' institutions, even in a remote degree, 
connected with medicine. 

"In the spring of 1869 the Academy of Med- 
icine, through the influence and suggestions of 
a few, took steps to organize an independent 
medical school. A committee was appointed, who 
formed chairs and selected members to fill the 
same. The academy adopted the report of this 
committee. 

"The following were the gentlemen selected to 
fill the various chairs : J. S. Bobbs, M.D., prin- 
ciples of surgery; J. A. Comingor, M.D., ortho- 
pedic surgery and surgical pathology; E. N. 
Todd, practice of medicine; T. B. Harvey, M.D., 
diseases of women and children ; W. B. Fletcher, 
M.D., physiology; E. T. Brown, chemistry; 
Dougan Clark, M.D., materia medica; G. W. 
Mears, M.D., obstetrics; L. D. Waterman, M.D., 
anatomy. 

"During this term the college met with a great 
loss in the death of Prof. J. S. Bobbs, M.D., who, 
without disparagement of any of his associates, 
it can be said, was the real originator and main- 
tainer of the institution. 

"The faculty was reorganized during the sum- 
mer of 1870, J. A. Comingor taking the chair 
of surgery, a consolidation of his former chair 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 71 

and that left vacant by the death of Dr. Bobbs, 
while a new chair of medical jurisprudence, tox- 
icology and analytic chemistry was formed, with 
Thad. M. Stevens, M.D., as occupant. 

"In 1871, by mutual agreement, the school be- 
came a branch of the State University, of Bloom- 
ington, having, however, the control of its in- 
ternal affairs vested in its own faculty. 

BOBBS'' FREE DISPENSARY 

"Up to 1870 there was nothing in the shape, 
or having a purpose similar to, a medical dis- 
pensary in Indianapolis, with exception of one 
or two private establishments that took the name 
for the purpose of deception, and thereby making 
money, from the circulars of imposters, which 
were issued lauding their nostrums. A gift to 
the poor of the city, from Dr. J. S. Bobbs, who 
died in the spring of 1870, was made the nucleus 
for the establishment of Bobbs' Free Dispensary, 
its board of directors to be the faculty of the 
medical college, having a superintendent, resident 
physician and druggist. 

INDIANAPOLIS CITY HOSPITAL. 

"As to hospitals, the city for a long time pos- 
sessed nothing of the kind. Indeed, no attempts 
were made to establish one until 1858. At this 
time an attempt, successful in a small degree, 
was made by the late L. Dunlap, M.D., then a 
member of the City Council, to have the city 
build a City Hospital. A beginning was made, 
a small building finished, and then all dropped, 
stillborn. The wind soon whistled through the 



72 MEDICAL HISTORY OF l\l>l 1 \ I 

broken panes of glass, and the frost and rain in 
turn covered the floors. No sick ever knocked at 
the weather-beaten door for admittance, and, 
therefore, no provision was made for their recep- 
tion. This continued until the war commenced. 
New life surged into the old walks; energy ap- 
peared where apathy reigned. The building was 
enclosed, equipped and filled with sick and 
wounded, and became one of the many hospital 
centers of the city. After the war had ceased 
and the military authorities were done with it, 
decay and silence again claimed it as their own; 
the roving swine and cattle passed to and fro 
through is dismantled gates, and it became an 
eyesore to the city. It was not until the demand 
of the physicians of the city arose to a clamor 
that the City Council promised to aid in furnish- 
ing and equipping it in the interest of the city's 
poor. This step was finally taken by them in 
1867, since which time its wards have been filled 
by those deserving such attention. 

"Bobbs' Medical Library was the result of a 
gift of $5,000, bequeathed by the late Prof. J. S. 
Bobbs, M.D., to the Indiana Medical College, 
whose trustees relinguished their right to the 
same, and by mutual agreement with Mrs. J. S. 
Bobbs, the executrix of the doctor's estate, it was 
given to a board of directors who were to estab- 
lish a library bearing the above title. Said board 
was composed as follows: G. W. Mears, M.D., 
T. B. Harvey, M.D., J. A. Comingor, M.D., 
Wm. B. Fletcher, M.D., Thad. M. Stevens, M.D., 
E. K Todd, M.D., Simon Yandes, Esq. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 73 

"This board held its first meeting for the pur- 
pose of organization March, 1873, when the fol- 
lowing officers were elected : G. W. Mears, M.D., 
president; T. B. Harvey, M.D., vice-president; 
J. A. Comingor, secretary; Thad. M. Stevens, 
M.D. librarian and treasurer. 

MEDICAL SOCIETIES. 

"In 1845 or 1846 the physicians of Indianap- 
olis organized what was called the Marion Coun- 
ty Medical Society, the first local medical or- 
ganization had in this city. We do not know 
all the membership. Drs. Sanders, Mears, Bobbs, 
Jameson, Dunlap, Gall, Bullard, Parry, Gaston 
and Andrew Hunt were among the first; after- 
ward Woodburn, Thompson, Funkhouser and 
others were added. Various physicians through- 
out the county of Marion also belonged. This 
society had for its officers Dr. Sanders, presi- 
dent; Dr. Bobbs and Dr. Hunt, secretary and 
assistant, Dr. Mears was the second president."* 



* Dr. Stevens commits several errors in the above para- 
graph. The Society was not organized "in 1845 of 1846," 
but in 1848. It was not called the "Marion County Medical 
Society," but was named "The Indianapolis Medical 
Society." Since the above appeared in the Journal, my 
friend, Dr. Allen Pierson, of Spencer, has sent me a copy 
of the By-laws and Constitution of the Society. The title 
page reads as follows : "Constitution and By-laws of the 
Indianapolis Medical Society, adopted Feb. 26, 1848." The 
officers for that year were : President, John H. Sanders ; 
Vice-Pres., Livingston Dunlap ; Sec'y., John S. Bobbs ; Cor. 
Sec'y., Talbott Bullard ; Treas., John L. Mothershead ; 
Censors, George W. Mears, Charles Parry and Livingston 
Dunlap. Members : David Funkhouser, John Nutt, H. V. V. 
Johnson, John Pleasants, James S. Harrison, John Evans, 
A. D. Gall, William R. Smith, R. G. Graydon, John M. 
Gaston, A. G. Ruddell, Isaac Meranda and William Clinton 
Thompson. This is the society that issued the call for a 
State Medical Convention in 1849. — G. W. H. K. 



U MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

\ in. — In the Transactions for 1S74, Dr. Alfred Patton. 
of \ incennes, states that the first medical society organized 
in Vincennes was under a charter granted hy the State 
Legislature in the year 1S35, page 10. Dr. Ezra Read, of 
Terre Haute, says this society was organized in 1817, page 
59. Dr. Patton later acknowledged that he was mistaken 
and admitted that Dr. Read was correct. See Transactions 
for 1875, page 82.— G. W. II. K. 



CHAPTER X. 



Early Medical History of Rush County. — 

Dr. H. G. Sexton. — Dr. J. M. Howland. 

Dr. William B. Frame. — Fifth 

Medical District Society. — 

Dr. W. H. Martin. 

In the Transactions for 1874, beginning at 
page 63, Drs. W. A. Pugh, Marshall Sexton and 
John Moffett have furnished biographies of sev- 
eral of the early physicians of Rush County and 
adjoining localities. They are of sufficient his- 
torical interest for a reproduction at this place. 
Dr. Pugh writes : 

"The first pioneer physician in southeastern 
Indiana of whom we have any direct knowledge 
is Dr. ¥m. B. Laughlin, who was born in Wash- 
ington County, Pennsylvania. He finished his 
classical education and graduated at Jefferson 
College, Canonsburg, Pa., after his third son was 
large enough to accompany him to the college on 
horseback. After his collegiate course he en- 
tered upon the study of medicine, on completion 
of which he removed to Kentucky and entered 
the active duties of his profession. In 1815, 
three years after his location in Kentucky, he 
again emigrated to the Northwest Territory, 
settling in Brookville, Franklin County, Indi- 
ana. During his sojourn at this place, besides 
attending to the medical wants of the then 
sparsely settled wilderness, he entered the em- 



76 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIA \ l. 

ploy of the government as surveyor for four or 
five years. He assisted in the survey of nine 
congressional townships around Indianapolis, 
eight around Noblesville, eight around Muncie, 
and eight around Anderson. While a citizen of 
Brookville he was elected circuit judge, and 
served in that capacity for a number of years. 
After the formation of Franklin County, he was 
elected to the state legislature and was on the 
committee which laid off the counties of the 
'new purchase/ the body at that time holding 
its sessions in Corydon, Ind. He started the 
first classical school in eastern Indiana, at Brook- 
ville, on his own responsibility, and had the 
honor of turning out of its walls three governors 
of the state, viz. : Noble, Wallace, and Bay. Many 
of the prominent lawyers of that day also were 
his pupils — 0. H. Smith, James Bariden, etc. 
In the year 1820 he came into Bush County and 
laid off and located the town of Bushville, nam- 
ing the county and town after old Dr. Bush, of 
Philadelphia, with whom he was on intimate 
terms of friendship. He and Dr. Sexton formed 
a partnership in medicine about the year 1822 
for a term of years. I think he was without 
doubt the first physician worthy of the name 
who pitched his tent in this part of Indiana. 
He erected at his own expense a seminary in the 
young town and taught in it a select school, giv- 
ing instruction in the ancient languages and 
higher mathematics. 

"Dr. Laughlin was a man of versatile talent, 
and was endowed by Nature with indomitable 
energy and perseverance. He was a man of true 



MEDICAL HISTORY 01-' INDIANA. 77 

metal. In addition to his scholastic attainments, 
lie was faithful to obey the injunction, 'Be ye 
fruitful, multiply and replenish the earth/ He 
was the honored father of eighteen children by 
one wife. He was a man of piety, and was one 
of six to establish the Presbyterian Church at 
Eushville, Ind., in 1825. It may be said of Dr. 
Laughlin that it was to his standing and influ- 
ence that the science of medicine was put upon 
a broad and a high basis in the new state in 
which he settled and with whose early history 
he was so closely identified. Died in 1836, aged 
66 years." 

H. G. SEXTON. 

"Prominent among the physicians of that early 
day was my old friend and preceptor, Dr. H. G. 
Sexton. He was present at the birth of the wri- 
ter of these sketches, and through childhood, 
youth and manhood was his adviser and instruc- 
tor; for many years a member of his Sunday 
school class; afterward a correspondent through 
college life and an instructor in my profession, 
it was my privilege, as it was my pleasure, to 
know much of his character. 

"Dr. Sexton was the pupil of the late Dr. 
Cruikshank, of Harrison, Ohio; was a New Eng- 
lander by birth, and came west when he was 
quite a young man, in the capacity of a teacher, 
to hew out his own fortunes. About the year 
1820 he went to the little village of Springboro, 
in Warren County, Ohio, to commence the prac- 
tice of medicine, his stock in trade being an old 
and sparsely filled pair of pill bags, an Indian 



78 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

pony, and 50 cents in money. On arriving at 
the place, he put up at an inn kept by Job Pugh. 
He honestly told the landlord who he was, what 
was his business, and the financial situation; he 
had to eat and he had to sleep, and if he could 
stay with him on these statements he would like 
to do so. The old Quaker, with his kindly wife, 
Sarah, admitted him to their household. That 
same old Quaker had a comely and benign-look- 
ing sister, Hannah, and it was not long before 
she had won the heart and affections of the 
young doctor, and not many months before they 
were united in wedlock. This was the most im- 
portant, as it was the happiest, event in his life, 
for in her he secured one of the most amiable, 
even-tempered and lovable women that ever a 
man led to Hymen's altar, and much of the 
Doctor's success, in after life, must be attributed 
to the self-sacrificing, self-denying and patient 
qualities of his wife. 

"About the year 1822 Dr. Sexton, with two 
of the brothers Pugh and their families, re- 
moved to Eushville, Ind. The town was just 
laid out. The county was one vast slush of 
mud and swamps. The land was densely covered 
with heavy timber, with an undergrowth of 
spice-wood, hickory and hazel bushes. There 
were no roads but those which, had been rudely 
cut out of the underbrush, and no guide-boards 
but the blazes upon the trees. Here he pitched 
his lent, and there he labored and worked until 
the day of his death, in June, 1865. No man 
was more devoted to his profession, in all its 
interests, than Dr. Sexton; to it all other things 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA, 79 

must bend and all other circumstances must 
yield. He was possessed of a vast fund of ex- 
perience, having been in active practice for more 
than forty years, and it being his delight to talk 
about his professional experience, made him one 
of the most companionable of men to his pro- 
fessional confreres. In the department of ob- 
stetrics he was particularly rich in experience of 
facts and practical results. It was his fortune 
to enjoy a larger experience in this field of his 
profession than any man of his day in southeast- 
ern Indiana, and as a consequence he excelled in 
the midwifery art. 

"During the early years of his life his prac- 
tice extended out from his home in a radius of 
twenty miles, which, of course, made his busi- 
ness laborious, requiring great industry, endur- 
ance and perseverance to undergo the work. 
These industrious habits formed in his youth 
followed him through life. Unlike many pro- 
fessional men who have gained reputation and 
wealth, he grew more studious and up to within 
a few weeks of his death he might have been 
seen busily employed at his professional duties. 
His age did not in the least lessen his industry. 
I have often heard him say, 'I can not live and 
do nothing.' No man had more professional 
friends than he, and no man was more jealous 
of his professional honor. He had no patience 
with any other than a manly, dignified and 
straight-forward course in professional life. He 
was possessed of a vast fund of anecdotes, inci- 
dents and amusing circumstances, which had 
transpired all along the pathway of his profes- 



80 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

sional career, and upon proper occasions would 
relate them with much gleesome humor. Seem- 
ingly cool and free from impulse or sentiment, 
he was a man of deep feeling and tender affec- 
tions; benevolent in a quiet way, which was 
largely expended in his attention upon the poor 
whom he considered worthy of help. For a 
period of 45 years he was an integral part of the 
community in which, he lived. As a citizen, he 
was on the side of progress. All public enter- 
prises had his sanction, support and influence. 
He joined the Presbyterian Church at Kushville, 
Ind., the next day after it was organized, in 
1825, and was, throughout his life, one of its 
mainstays and supports; was a devoted and 
faithful Sunday school teacher, rarely absent 
from his post during a period of 30 years. In 
June, 1865, he was gathered home as a shock of 
corn fully ripe. He left the record of a well- 
spent life; an example of industry and devotion 
to the place he chose to fill in his worldly pil- 
grimage." 

J. M. HOWLAND. 
(By M. Sexton, M.D., Rushville, Ind.) 

"Dr. Howland was a native of Baltimore, Md. 
Born Dec. 22, 1792, and died in Brookville, 
Ind., Jan. 11, 1858. He received his degree of 
Doctor of Medicine from the University of 
Maryland in 1819, and practiced his profession 
for two years in the Shenandoah Valley, Vir- 
ginia, when ample opportunities were afforded 
for the study of the various forms of malarial 
disease. From this time until his removal to 
Indiana in 1833, he was engaged in the active 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 81 

pursuit of his profession in the city of Balti- 
more. During this period the cholera made its 
first visit to that city. In this epidemic, Dr. 
Howland acquired quite a reputation for its suc- 
cessful treatment in private practice, and also 
as physician in charge of a cholera hospital im- 
provised for the occasion. 

"Dr. Howland was a gentleman of culture, 
and in his native city acquired distinction as a 
writer as well as physician. He was a frequent 
contributor to the religious publications of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, as well as an able 
advocate with his tongue and pen of every great 
moral enterprise. He became somewhat noted 
for his advocacy, also, of various public im- 
provements, and after his removal west made a 
strong impression, wherever he was heard, by his 
accurate knowledge and earnestness on the sub- 
ject of railroads. During the years 1834 and 
1835 he sustained himself nobly in favor of rail- 
roads against canals. 

"Dr. Howland was for many years in the habit 
of occasional preaching. As a public orator he 
was remarkable for his logical force, and the sys- 
tematic presentation of facts, relying but little 
upon the imagination with which to take the 
fancy of his hearing 'prisoners.' 

"From the midst of a host of professional 
friends, and while occupying an enviable posi- 
tion as a leading physician in a great maritime 
city, a leader in its polemics and a molder of its 
morals, he looked eagerly to the west for a field 
in which to attain greater usefulness and, of 
course, distinction. 



82 UEDICAL U1ST0RY OF INDIANA. 

"Bemoving west in 1833, he first took 'regular 
work' as a minister of the gospel. It was in the 
capacity of a physician that we first knew him. 
He brought to bear in the practice of medicine 
the same qualities of mind which distinguished 
him as a writer and speaker. Quick powers of 
observation, a thorough analysis of his cases, 
with a careful interpretation of their symptoms, 
made him precise and thorough as a diagnosti- 
cian. He never guessed. He reached conclu- 
sions in medicine by as thorough a process of 
reasoning as could be brought to bear in deter- 
mining a proposition in mathematics; hence he 
seldom made mistakes. His very precision and 
studied, careful manner, with the full, dignified 
bearing, which conscious ability inspires, did 
not serve to make him popular with the people. 
He was an earnest advocate of the highest code 
of medical morals, and scorned to resort to tricks 
by which less able men attained popularity and 
wealth. 'While the qualities of his mind and 
manners, as we have stated, did not make him 
popular, they were the very qualities which made 
him eminent among his fellowv-. His counsel 
was sought for, and his advice followed by the 
younger members of his profession, as that of an 
oracle. He died greatly beloved and respected 
by those who appreciated him, leaving behind 
him descendants eminent in the field of letters 
and law." 

WM. B. FRAME. 

"Among the early medical men of eastern In- 
diana, Dr. Frame stood deservedly high. En- 
dowed with great natural ability, he had the ad- 



MEDICAL HISTORY OP INDIANA. 63 

vantage of many of his confreres in a thorough 
classical education. A native of Norfolk. Va., 
he removed in his youth to Lexington, Ky. ; 
studied his profession with Dr. Toliver, of Paris, 
Ky., afterward of Cincinnati; attended lectures 
and took his medical degree at Transylvania 
University, Lexington, Ky. Dr. Frame, in 1827, 
selected Eushville, Ind., as his future home, 
finding in our large Kentucky population con- 
genial associations, which lasted through life. 
He immediately entered upon a lucrative prac- 
tice. To his native talents and finished educa- 
tion he also added great energy. With such ele- 
ments, success was assured from the first. He 
married in 1832, thus adding another tie to the 
bonds which held him to the people of the county. 
Dr. Frame, unfortunately, was not endowed with 
a physical constitution proportionate to his men- 
tal ability. The rigors of the climate often over- 
powered him and he would be prostrated with 
diseases, the unavoidable result of exposure in 
his practice. 

"By reason of the early advantages possessed 
by Dr. Frame, as was stated, his success was as- 
sured from the beginning, and he at once as- 
sumed a high position as a medical man, which 
he maintained until his death, in 1849. As he 
was Virginian born and Kentucky bred, he had 
a full share of that pride of character which ac- 
companies good blood and good breeding. He 
was, as might be expected, a strict, conscientious 
man in professional morals, living himself up to 
the highest letter of the code. He demanded and 
commanded that respect from others which he 



S4 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

generously extended to all honorable men in the 
same profession. Though dead now many years, 
his name is fresh in the memories of his asso- 
ciates and a large circle of patrons and friends." 

FIFTH MEDICAL DISTRICT SOCIETY. 

"The first medical society in the eastern part 
of Indiana was known as the Fifth Medical 
district Society. This was organized under 
the law of the state, we believe, which pro- 
vided for societies throughout the state, in num- 
bers equal to the congressional districts, perhaps, 
and with the same territory. To these societies 
was granted the privileges of issuing licenses, 
etc., though no law gave their membership any 
exclusive right to practice medicine. No record 
of the Fifth Medical District Society is known 
to be in existence, and but few of the original 
members survive. In the list of this membership 
we recollect as familiar names Drs. Moffatt and 
Brown of Connersville, Dr. Everett of Union 
County, Dr. Hamon of Burkville, Dr. Helm of 
Eush County, Drs. William B. Laughlin, H. G. 
Sexton and Wm; B. Frame of Eushville. These 
are but a few of the early pioneer physicians. 

"This society lived for several years, holding 
semi-annual sessions of two days each, exerting 
a vast deal of good influence in the enlighten- 
ment of its members, and wielding a great power 
in the community for the prevention of irregular 
medicine. We do not hesitate to attribute to the 
early teaching and example of these pioneer 
physicians much of the respect and confidence 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF. INDIANA. 85 

with which the profession in this part of Indiana 
meets at the present day. Regular medicine had 
then to compete with the Thompsonian system, 
and, under the fostering care of the men named, 
grew steadily in the esteem of the people, while 
the high-pressure doctors were compelled to seek 
unoccupied fields farther west. As might be ex- 
pected, forty years ago the profession was not 
filled with learned men, i. e., men familiar with 
all the teachings of the schools, but earnest, ob- 
servant men, fruitful in expedient, and, from 
necessity in many cases, self-restraint, they 
founded a corps of practitioners entitled, for their 
wonderful success under adverse circumstances, 
to our profound respect. This society grew so 
strong with the people that a connection with it 
was necessary to the success of a stranger who 
came asking support as a physician, and to this 
day it is expected by this community that their 
physicians shall be members of a 'healthy medi- 
cal organization.' As before said, we attribute 
this healthy public opinion to the impressions 
made by our pioneer society and pioneer physi- 
cians of 40 and 50 years ago. We regret that 
we have no fuller data from which to speak of 
this association and its membership. It ceased 
to exist, from causes not now known, about 1838. 
"The second medical society in which we feel 
any immediate interest was instituted in Rush- 
ville, Ind., as a county society in 1847 or '48. 
It included in its organization Drs. Frame, Mar- 
tin, H. G. Sexton, M. Sexton, Jeff. Helm, J. M. 
Rowland, Wm. Braclen, Clifford, E. T. Russell, 



UEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

Tompkins, and others not now remembered. It 
adopted as its code of medical morals the Code 
of Ethics just published by the National Medi- 
cal Association, and elected for its first president 
Dr. Howland. This society, we regret to say, 
was short lived. It attempted to do too much. 
It wished to make (under the advice of some 
members who had no axes to grind) physicians 
and members out of all who practiced, or wished 
to practice, and who could only do so with the 
endorsement which such a society could give. 
Under this arrangement, almost every one was 
admitted to membership, and a kind of license 
to practice was given to all who asked. Of 
course, a society thus organized, having within 
itself the elements of its own destruction, could 
not live long. Those really interested in the 
progress of medicine did not feel honored by the 
indiscriminate manner of admitting members, 
and when they withheld their support the society 
died of its own weight. 

"Of our last society — c Eush Medical Society* 
— organized June, 1856, and running a success- 
ful career until 1862, when its records were de- 
stroyed by fire, and reorganized the same year 
with a more select membership, it does not be- 
come us to speak. It is proper to say, however, 
that it is clean in its membership, scrupulously 
adherent to the Principles of Ethics, and, in its 
modest way, doing what it can for the advance- 
ment of its members in knowledge of practical 
medicine." 



MEDKWL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 87 

WM. H. MARTIN. 
(By John Moffett, M.D., Rushville, Ind.) 

"Dr. Win. H. Martin was a native of Phila- 
delphia, Pa. When quite young his father came 
west and found a resting place in Cincinnati, 
Ohio, where he pursued his original avocation, 
that of a wholesale merchant. Therefore, young 
Martin's first impressions as to business pursuits 
were those of a mercantile character, furnishing 
to his cast of mind but little attraction. As if 
still further to estrange him from the objects of 
his father's chief delight, at the period when it 
became necessary for the determination of the 
choice of an occupation, his father died, leaving 
the son nothing to rely on but his native powers. 
After an ineffectual essay in business, he was led 
to adopt the profession of medicine as the call- 
ing best suited to his tastes and aptitudes. Hav- 
ing enjoyed the advantages of a fair literary 
preparation, he placed himself under the direc- 
tion of Dr. John L. Vattier, of Cincinnati, as 
his preceptor. For nearly two years he pursued 
his studies with a zeal and assiduity equaled only 
to his pressing necessities. Late in the year 
1833 he made a visit to Rushville, Ind., where 
an aunt was residing. He was induced through 
her encouragement to make an effort to estab- 
lish himself in the place in the practice of medi- 
cine. Through the personal influence of his 
aunt and her husband, Dr. H. G. Sexton gave 
him the rare advantage of forming a partner- 
ship, which soon gave him ample opportunity 
for a very general acquaintance with the people 
of the county, besides the ripened experience of 



SS MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIAN I. 

an association of an extensive practice. In a 
professional point of view, this proved to be a 
lifelong advantage. At the close of the second 
year of this association in business a mutual 
separation was concluded. Now he opened an 
office and began the successful prosecution of 
his profession, which he continued with the usual 
difficulties, reverses and successes until the year 
1855, when, in the spring of that year, he re- 
moved to Jasper County, Indiana, near the 
county seat. Having located on a farm, enjoy- 
ing the delights of agriculture and quietude, he 
spent the remaining number of his days, which 
were ended June 15, 1871. 

"So ended a life filled with hopes and fears, 
joys and sorrows, that it might be truthfully 
said the cup of bitter and sweet equiposed each 
other. As a man he was eminently social, 
fluent and entertaining in conversation, truly 
polite, accommodating and obliging as a neigh- 
bor and friend, indulgent to his children, ever 
watching for the welfare of his family. He as- 
pired to distinction as a citizen, and served in 
the lower house of the legislature as clerk dur- 
ing the session of 1838. He held places of honor 
and responsibility in the Fifth Medical District 
Societ}', such as president and censor, and, in 
brief, maintained a respectable standing in the 
profession by his attainments and uniform cour- 
tesy of conduct in his intercourse with his medi- 
cal brethren." 



CHAPTER XL 



Early Medical History of Delaware 

Couxty. — Reaiixiscexces of Haxcock 

Couxty. — Early Medical History 

of Xoble Couxtt. 

(By G. W. H. Kemper, M.D.) 

Dr. Dickinson Burt was the first physician to 
locate in Delaware County after its organization 
in 1827.* The exact date of his location in 
Muncietown is not known — it was prior to 1829, 
for the official records show that, in addition to 
his medical duties, he was our second postmaster 
— his commission bearing date Aug. 29, 1829. 
The postoffice was at his home on the west side 
of Mulberry Street, near Gilbert Street. 

The number of physicians multiplied as the 
population increased, so that the medical and 
surgical wants of the early pioneers were not 
neglected. These men were subjected to numer- 
ous hardships — riding on horseback, over mud 
roads, or along by-paths long distances by day 
and by night. These rides were made in all 
kinds of weather — beneath the piercing rays of 
a summer sun, in zero weather, or through 
drench in o- rains. 



* Four hundred and thirty-sis physicians have located 
in Delaware County during the first eighty years of its 
existence. 



90 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIA* l. 

"This undecorated soldier, of a hard, unequal strife. 
Fought in many stubborn battles with the foes that 

sought his life. 
In the night-time or the day-time, he would rally brave 

and well, 
Though the summer lark was fifing, or the frozen 

lances fell; 
Knowing if he won the battle they would praise their 

Maker's name, 
Knowing if he lost the battle then the doctor was to 

blame. 
'Twas the brave old virtuous doctor, 
'Twas the good old faulty doctor, 

'Twas the faithful country doctor — fighting stoutly all 
the same." — Carleton. 

The author of this paper located in Muncie 
Aug. 18, 1865, and I esteem it an honor to have 
known personally a large number of the physi- 
cians of this county. The physicians whom I 
met at the time above indicated were men of 
good attainments and ripe experience — a major- 
ity of them were elderly men, not only those lo- 
cated in Muncie, but those residing at other 
points in the county. 

All physicians at that time were making coun- 
try calls on horseback — a few only were using 
buggies or carts in the summer season while the 
roads were in better condition. I made my 
country calls invariably on horseback during the 
first three years of my practice, and also a part 
of the time for several years later. As the roads 
were improved, vehicles became more common, 
until gradually the doctor with saddle-bags 
merged into the physician riding in a phaeton, 
and still later, as at the present day, in an auto- 
mobile — a veritable evolution as I have witnessed 
from equestrianism to electricity and gasoline ! 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. Ul 

The physicians who practice in Delaware 
County to-day and ride along its roads and 
streets in buggies can little appreciate the hard- 
ships that these early practitioners endured be- 
fore our gravel roads were made. Visits made 
on errands of mercy were often accompanied with 
peril, as it was no uncommon thing for the horse 
to mire in creeks and swamps. A thrilling ex- 
perience in this line lingers in the memory of the 
writer. The hardships these men endured told 
upon their physical strength. 

The various preparations of medicines have 
markedly improved during the past half-century, 
or even a quarter of a century. Concentrated 
medicines as fluid extracts, specific tinctures, 
tablets, etc., enable us to carry a large list of 
remedies in a small space, which is a great im- 
provement over the cumbersome saddle-bags re- 
quired in former days to carry roots and leaves 
for the preparation of infusions and decoctions. 

Many of our valuable instruments in common 
use at the present day were but little known or 
unused fifty years ago. About the year 1866 I 
bought a hypodermic syringe, which I believe 
was the first one to be used in Delaware County. 
I think Dr. Eobert Winton owned the first fever 
thermometer in this county. Two were then 
thought to be necessary — one for the mouth and 
a curved one for the axilla. Neither of these 
were self-registering, and it was necessary to 
read them while in situ. These useful but crude 
instruments soon gave way to the neater ther- 
mometer, so accurate and essential at the present 
dav. 



D2 MEDIC l/. HISTORY OF INDIA* I. 

COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 

The first practical steps toward organizing a 
medical society in Delaware County were taken 
on April IS, I860, when some of the physicians 
of the county met in Walling's Hall (west side 
of public square), in the city of Muncie, to take 
preliminary steps for the formation of a perma- 
nent society. At that meeting Dr. S. Y. Jump 
occupied the chair, and Dr. N". W. Black was 
chosen secretary. A committee was then ap- 
pointed, composed of Drs. Morgan, Winton and 
Craig, on permanent organization. The adjourn- 
ment was until Monday, the first day of May. 
following, when the meeting convened in Dr. 
Winton's office, 112 West Adams Street. The 
physicians present were Drs. Armitage, Black, 
Craig, Hoover, Lewellen, Morgan, Skiff, 
Wheeler, Willard, Winton, W. H. Williams, and 
J. A. Williams. At this meeting the committee 
on permanent organization made a report and 
the plan of organization was read by sections, 
discussed, and adopted. The committee was con- 
tinued, and empowered to revise the constitution 
and by-laws, and have the same published. Un- 
der this organization the following-named officers 
were chosen: President, Dr. S. Y. Jump: vice- 
president, Dr. W. J. Morgan; secretary, Dr. X. 
W. Black: treasurer, Dr. William Craig; cen- 
sors, Drs. Eobert Winton, W. C. Willard and J. 
H. Powers. 

At a meeting held June 5, 1865, Drs. L. J. 
Bonnels, J. C. Helm, S. E, Mitchell and H. C. 
Winans were admitted to membership. At a 
meeting held July 3, I860, Dr. Henry Kirby 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 93 

was admitted, and at a meeting held in Septem- 
ber, 1865, Drs. W. J. Andrews and G. W. H. 
Kemper were admitted to membership. 

The Delaware County Medical Society has 
been reorganized several times since its first or- 
ganization, in order to conform to the require- 
ments of the State Medical Association, but the 
society has never failed to exist, and the present 
one is virtually a continuation of the original 
society. So far as the author can ascertain, Dr. 
W. J. Andrews, of Newark, N. J., and Dr. G. W. 
H. Kemper, of Muncie, are the only persons liv- 
ing who became members in 1865. 

The record of the physicians of Delaware 
County has been a creditable one; few moral 
delinquencies have existed. They have been in- 
dustrious, as shown by the numerous contribu- 
tions to medical literature contributed by our 
citizen physicians. Our death rate has not been 
excessive; our health officers have been compe- 
tent, and our surgeons have successfully per- 
formed nearly all the operations known to sur- 
gery. 

Dr. Dickinson Burt (1829) was the first phy- 
sician to locate in Muncietown or Delaware 
County. I have no information concerning his 
individual history or the exact date of location. 
Dr. Burt was the second postmaster at Muncie- 
town and filled that office from Aug. 29, 1829, 
to May 6, 1835. It is supposed that he left soon 
after the expiration of the term of his office. 
Nothing further is known of his history. 

Dr. Levi Minshall (1829) w r as the second phy- 
sician to locate in Muncietown. He was born in 



94 MEDICAL HI8T0R7 OF INDIA \ L. 

Virginia, March 4. 1804. He was licensed to 
practice at Dayton, Ohio, in 1829, and came to 
Muncietown in the same year and at once began 
the practice of medicine. An old citizen who re- 
members Dr. Minshall's first appearance in Mun- 
cietown says that he came here from Dayton, 
Ohio, riding a very large iron-gray horse, and 
wore a suit of broadcloth, a circumstance that 
created almost a sensation among the primitive 
people living here at that time, as homespun 
jeans was the regulation apparel and broadcloth 
was reserved for the rich and nobility. He was 
a man of scholarly attainments and soon gained 
a prominent place in the community as a physi- 
cian and a citizen. One of the interesting inci- 
dents of his early practice in the country when 
visiting the sick was that he would ride up and 
clown White Eiver in the water to avoid bears 
and wolves that roamed about in their native 
freedom in the woods in the territory which now 
comprises Delaware County. He died at Mun- 
cietown March 6, 1836, aged 32 years. His re- 
mains repose in Beech Grove Cemetery. 

If the physicians whom I met in Delaware 
County forty-two years ago were to rise from the 
dead and appear in our midst to-day, they would 
be startled at our speeding automobiles, but no 
less surprised at our new advances in medicine 
and surgery, as well as our strange medical 
terms, for, if they were to hear medical men 
conversing about antiseptics, Listerism, anti- 
toxins, serums and germs, they would not com- 
prehend their meaning. Should they attempt a 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 95 

surgical operation according to the rules of their 
day, they would be liable to answer to the charge 
of malpractice. 

Reminiscences of Western Hancock 
County. 

Reminiscences of western Hancock County 
(Transactions, 1874, p. 74) by Dr. J. W. Her- 
vey, of Indianapolis, is worth reprinting because 
of its historical value. 

"In 1846 the congestive fever, as then called, 
made its appearance. Many died; in fact, all 
the patients of some physicians. Dr. Moore, of 
Cumberland, contended that bleeding was the 
only remedy; after that, calomel to ptyalism. He 
lost nearly every case. A consultation was called 
at Cumberland, to which all physicians con- 
nected with that investigation were invited, and 
a treatment was agreed upon, embracing the 
tonic feature, but not sufficiently heroic; but 
each member grew into the habit of saving his 
patients by full and frequent doses of quinin. 
The great hindrance to the use of quinin was 
its cost and the scarcity of money. Quinin cost 
$6.00 (I think at one time $8.00) an ounce, and 
scarce at that. Dr. Hervey bought up a number 
of fat cattle, drove them to Indianapolis, sold 
them for $7.50 a head, and bought quinin 
with it. 

"In 1847 a singular epidemic of the smallpox 
appeared in this locality. Erysipelas had been 
prevailing, and what was called black tongue. A 
healthy man by the name of Snyder took the 
confluent variola. The whole surface swelled en« 



•Hi MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

ormously. Dr. William R. Smith had come to 
Cumberland some time before that, and Dr. 
Bobbs, who came to the same place about the 
same time, were called to see him, but failed to 
diagnose the case. The next day Dr. Hervey 
was called in consultation and pronounced it 
smallpox modified by erysipelas. Failing to 
agree with the other doctors, he left. They bled 
the man profusely and he died in twenty-four 
hours after. The people flocked from all about 
the country to see him. The consequence was 
the disease spread through the country. Dr. 
Hervey treated 84 cases, and did not bleed or de- 
plete one of them, with a mortality of but two 
children and three grown persons. All who were 
depleted, without one exception, died. Dr. John 
S. Bobbs and Dr. Bullsrd, of Indianapolis, and 
Dr. Brown, of Bethel, were called together at 
Isaac Snyder's to see a case, and agreed with Dr. 
Hervey that it was smallpox modified by the pre- 
vailing diatheses of the country. The fact of its 
making its appearance without any one knowing 
how, agitated the public mind to the highest 
pitch, and, as Dr. Hervey had seemed to become 
prominent in the treatment of the disease, it was 
finally widespread that he started the disease for 
the purpose of getting into business. He had 
seen it in Cincinnati the winter before, and it 
was claimed that he brought a scab with him, 
and by that means, or some other way, originated 
the disease. He had used nitrate of silver and 
tincture of iodin to prevent pitting. One Miss 
Burris lost one eye and was otherwise disfigured 
by scars, she having had a bad case of confluent 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 97 

smallpox, some of which formed in the eye. Pop- 
ular prejudice pointed to this case as one of 
malpractice, and suited to punish him for hav- 
ing started the disease. The prejudice and bad 
feeling against the doctor was so popular that his 
counsel advised him to take a change of venue 
to Shelby County. The depositions of Dr. Jack- 
son of New York, Prof. Eobley Dunglison of 
Philadelphia, and the evidence of Dr. John S. 
Bobbs, before the time of trial, caused the case 
to be withdrawn. The doctor's character was 
vindicated, and he rose in time above it, but it 
cost him about three years of his life's best 
efforts. This case is a valuable one in the his- 
tory of our profession, and shows how dangerous 
is the ignorance of the masses when brought to 
bear upon a member of our profession." 

Early Medical Histoey of Noble County. 

Dr. J. L. Gilbert, of Kendallville, in the 
Transactions for 1874, p. 73, gives an interesting 
account of early medical matters in Noble 
County. It is here reproduced. 

"On the 12th of July, 1858, a number of the 
physicians of the county met at Ligonier and 
organized a county society, with D. W. C. 
Denny, M.D., president, and S. H. Estabrook, 
M.D., secretary. The organization was kept up 
but a short time. I think there were only two 
meetings held. There seemed to be much in- 
difference with reference to medical societies 
among the physicians of the county, which ac- 
counts for its short life. This was the first 



98 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

effort in Noble County to organize a medical 
society. 

"On the 15th of June, 1870, the Northeastern 
Indiana Medical Society was organized. This 
society embraces the counties of Noble, Lagrange, 
Steuben and DeKalb. The movement which cul- 
minated in this organization originated in Noble 
County, being first suggested by myself. 

"The following named gentlemen were pres- 
ent at the first meeting: From Noble Countv — 
D. W. C. Denny, C. Palmiter, W. D. Randall," U. 
J. Ward, T. E. Adair, D. N. Fansler, L. F. 
Abell, J. L. Gilbert, G. W. Carr, H. Landon, P. 
W. Crum, W. H. Franks, B. AVright, 0. J. Vin- 
cent, and S. T. Williams. From Lagrange 
County — John Dancer and J. N". Denny. From 
Steuben County— H. D. Wood. 

"DeKalb County was not represented at the 
first meeting, but was included in the organiza- 
tion, and S. Stough, from that county, was 
elected a member on recommendation of H. D. 
Wood. 

"O. J. Vincent was elected president, and one 
vice-president from each county, viz. : H. D. 
Wood, John Dancer, C. Palmiter and S. Stough; 
secretary, J. L. Gilbert; treasurer, L. F. Abell; 
board of censors, D. W. C. Denny, S. T. Williams, 
W. H. Franks, H. Landon and G. W. Oarr. 

"The officers were elected annually. The pres- 
idents thus far have been 0. J. Vincent, H. D. 
Wood, J. Dancer and G. W. Carr. The society 
numbers seventy bona fide members. These are 
divided among the counties as follows: Noble. 
31; LaGrange, 13; Steuben, 13; DeKalb, 13. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 99 

"The following named gentlemen are honorary 
members, most of whom meet with us at least 
once a year and take an active part in the pro- 
ceedings: N. S. Davis, J. Adams Allen, M. M. 
Latta, Theophilus Parvin, B. S. Woodworth, T. 
A. McGraw, Edward Jenks, Leartus Connor, R 
C. S. Eeed and C. S. Frink. 

"The meetings are held quarterly and are well 
attended. I do not know of a single successful 
irregular practitioner within the bounds of the 
society. Two or three 'eclectics' of some pro- 
fessional standing in the community have aban- 
doned the distinctive name and have been ad- 
mitted to the society and are good members. It 
has promoted general good feeling among physi- 
cians, which is always the result of intimate ac- 
quaintance among ethical men. 

"On the 15th of November, 1873, the Noble 
County Medical Society was organized under a 
call made in pursuance to the request of the 
State Medical Society to organize county socie- 
ties throughout the state. G. Erickson was made 
president, and N. Teal secretary. Two meetings 
have been held. Most of the physicians have 
joined it, and I doubt not this society will suc- 
ceed." 



CHAPTER XII. 



Pioneer Physicians or Bartholomew 
County. 

by geo. t. mac coy, m.d v columbus, ind. 

During the session of the Indiana Legislature 
at Cory don (the then capital of the state), in 
1819-20, a number of counties were mapped out 
and a law passed providing for their organiza- 
tion. Among the number, Bartholomew County 
was named for Gen. Joseph Bartholomew, a 
member from Clark County. The name was 
given at the instance of Gen. John Tipton. At 
this time the city of Columbus (then called Tip- 
tonia, for General Tipton) consisted of only five 
families. The county became a "separate juris- 
diction" on Feb. 12, 1821, with two hundred 
voters, two of whom were preachers, but none 
were doctors. 

All traditions concur in giving to Hiram 
Smith the post of honor of having been the first 
doctor to locate in Columbus, his arrival occur- 
ring in April, 1821. At least he was here as 
early as May 1, 1821, for on the return made by 
the assessor for that year (May 14, 1821) Dr. 
Smith is charged with a "poll tax and no other 
property." Dr. Smith came from Mercer Coun- 
ty, Kentucky. What his medical education was, 



* I am under obligations to my friend. Dr. George T. 
MacCoy, for this very interesting paper. — G. W. H. K. 



MHD1CAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 101 

or where and how it was obtained, I am unable 
to learn; but this much I have learned by the 
perusal of some old records — that he was well 
read in his profession, better than the average 
of those times, and that his fine address made 
him a favorite at once in the primitive settle- 
ment. That Dr. Smith was a man above the 
average may be readily believed from the rec- 
ords of St. John's Lodge, No. 20, F. & A. M., 
of Columbus. At a meeting to organize a so- 
ciety it was found that Dr. Hiram Smith was 
the unanimous choice for master, and when the 
Grand Lodge met in session at Corydon, Octo- 
ber, 1822, a charter was granted to St. John's 
Lodge, and Dr. Hiram Smith, although he was 
not present at the session, was named as the 
first worshipful master. This office he held for 
several years. Dr. Smith had the honor to open 
and change the first mail ever delivered in Co- 
lumbus, and was probably the first postmaster.* 
As to Dr. Smith's methods in practice, I can 
say very little. He was a firm believer in the 
lancet and heroic doses of calomel and Peruvian 
bark. Tablespoonful doses of the powdered bark, 
in molasses, given every two hours during a re- 
mission or intermission of fever, were one of his 
stand-bys in the treatment of malarial fevers. 
Dr. Smith continued in active practice here for 
many years, until the death of his wife, which 
occurred during confinement. To suppress a 

* Possibly this is an error. — Mr. C. P. Granfleld, First 
Assistant Postmaster General, writes me, under date of 
April 14th, 1909, as follows : "You are advised that ac- 
cording to the records of this office the first postmaster 
at Columbus, Ind. was William Duerson, appointed August 
22, 1821, and the name of Dr. Smith does not appear as 
ever having been postmaster at this office." — G. W. H. K. 



102 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

uterine hemorrhage the Doctor used large quan- 
tities of cold water. She died. His enemies 
claimed that the cold water killed her. This so 
worried and embittered him that he left Colum- 
bus and located in Mooresville, but shortly after 
moved to Edinburg, Johnson Count}', where his 
death occurred Oct. 1, 1869, from gastric ulcer. 
The date of his birth can not be determined, 
but it is known that he was 79 years old when 
he died. 

The next physician to locate in Columbus was 
Dr. Joseph L. Washburn, who came here in the 
autumn of 1821 and began to practice at once. 
He was born and educated in Vermont. Before 
studying medicine he was engaged in teaching 
school at Middleburg, that state. The acciden- 
tal introduction of smallpox broke up his school, 
and he was vaccinated, thus protecting himself 
from the disease. This so pleased him that he 
vaccinated many others, being so successful thai; 
he was dubbed "Kine Pox Doctor." He began 
the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Tan- 
sher, of Middleburg, Vt., and finished in the 
office of Dr. Needham, of Crown Point, ]ST. Y. 
In March, 1822, he was senior deacon of St. 
John's Lodge, Columbus, Ind. 

Dr. 'Washburn had a good English education, 
and a better medical education than many who 
have practiced here since his day: he continued 
to grow in popularity, not only on account of 
his professional abilit}', but his social qualities 
also endeared him to all. In January, 1828, 
he was elected county agent, and shortly after- 
ward he was elected and commissioned magis- 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 103 

trate of the county and ex officio member of the 
"board of control." He held this office "with- 
out fear or reproach" until the day of his death, 
Oct. 9, 1828. A contemporary notice appeared 
in the Indianapolis Journal, written by some 
one who knew him well, extolling his virtues 
and commending his useful life, both as a physi- 
cian and citizen. Dr. Washburn was a success- 
ful practitioner ; his treatment of dysentery con- 
sisted in cathartics and opium, a practice not 
much improved upon at the present day. His 
honored remains were interred in what is known 
as "The Thompson Graveyard," one mile south 
of the city, where I saw and copied the inscrip- 
tion on the moldering marble that marks his 
resting-place. 

Dr. William V. Snyder came here from Vir- 
ginia in 1822, and practiced in Columbus and 
the surrounding country for several years. He 
was very popular with all classes, but became 
dissatisfied with his location and returned to 
Virginia, where he died many years ago. 

Dr. Joseph Eose and his junior brother, Dr. 
E. Rose, located here about 1822. They were 
both good physicians, but I have been unable to 
learn where they came from, or where they went, 
as they remained here only a few years. 

Dr. John Eitchie located in Columbus about 
1827, and at once secured a fair share of patron- 
age. He was sociable and affable, a fair public 
speaker and a safe practitioner of medicine. His 
wife was an educated woman, and was the first 
of her sex to teach the higher branches in the 
public schools of this city. Dr. Eitchie was 



104 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

born in Adams County, Pennsylvania, Jan. 5, 
1782. He had a common school education, 
which lie added to by study after his marriage. 
He studied medicine with Dr. Warwick, near 
Brycelands Cross Roads, twenty miles west of 
Pittsburg. He practiced a few years in Ohio 
before coming to Columbus. In 1832 Dr. Rit- 
chie moved to Franklin, Ind., where he enjoyed 
a lucrative practice, and was held in high esteem 
for many years. His death occurred in that 
city. Oct. 10, 1857. He was once a candidate 
for the office of probate judge, but was defeated 
by only a few votes. 

Dr. James Ritchie, son of the physician named 
above, was born in Erie County, Pennsylvania, 
June 6, 1804. He studied medicine with his 
father, and attended one course of lectures in 
the Medical College of Ohio in the winter of 
1828-9. After leaving school he came to Colum- 
bus and engaged in practice with his father. 
Afterward he moved to Edinburg, and later to 
Rensselaer, where he died some years ago. Dr. 
James Ritchie was a member of the constitu- 
tional convention of 1850 that gave to Indiana 
her present constitution. 

Dr. William P. Kiser came to Columbus about 
1828. He studied medicine in the office of Dr. 
Cravens, in Shenandoah County, Virginia, hav- 
ing as fellow office student Dr. Joseph A. Bax- 
ter, who also located in Columbus in 1829, form- 
ing a partnership with Dr. Kiser, which lasted 
several years, terminating in mutual disagree- 
ment. Dr. Kiser was a good dresser and a good 
talker, but he was a man of quick, irritable tem- 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 105 

per, which interfered greatly with his popular- 
ity. In his practice he was noted for "snap 
diagnosis"; he did not study his cases very well. 
He was elected treasurer of the county, which 
office he held several years; he also served one 
term in the legislature as representative from 
this county. He died many years ago at Eock- 
port, Ind. 

Dr. Joseph A. Baxter, as stated above, studied 
medicine in the office of Dr. Cravens in Shenan- 
doah County, Virginia, and located in Colum- 
bus a year later than Dr. Kiser, with whom he 
was associated in practice. Dr. Baxter was a 
man of talents and a physician in the best sense 
of the term. As a diagnostician he had few 
equals. Almost every autopsy held in the county 
for eight or ten years was conducted by him. 
Some of these were noted criminal cases. One 
noted post mortem was made at night, with only 
the light of one tallow candle, held by the late 
Judge Tunis Quick. Dr. Baxter established the 
first drug store operated in Columbus. In relig- 
ion Dr. Baxter was a strict Presbyterian, and be- 
came a ruling elder in the church in Columbus. 
He was one of the leading physicians of the state 
at the time of his death, which, occurred in 1839, 
before he had reached the meridian of life. His 
death was universally regretted. 

Dr. Tiffin Davis came to Columbus from Ohio 
in 1830. He was a classmate of Dr. James 
Eitchie, mentioned above, having attended lec- 
tures at the Medical College of Ohio in 1828-29. 
He was one of the best physicians of his day; in 
fact, Dr. Joseph A. Baxter and Dr. Tiffin Davis 



106 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

stand out as bright lights in the medical pro- 
fession of this part of Indiana. Dr. Davis was 
the possessor of a good English education and 
was intended for the profession of teaching. 
His mother was an estimable woman, Miss Tif- 
fin, a sister of Edward Tiffin, the first governor 
of Ohio. Dr. Davis acquired some fame as a 
surgeon, being considered the best surgeon in 
this part of the state. He attended the late Dr. 
Hiram Smith, mentioned above, in his last ill- 
ness, and soon followed him to his long home. 
He died in Edinburg, also, about 1871. 

About the same time that Dr. Tiffin Davis 
came to Columbus, Dr. Henry B. Eoland came 
from Virginia, and located in the county be- 
tween Columbus and JSTewbern. Dr. Eoland was 
always considered one of the best general prac- 
titioners in the county, and, in fact, he was a 
good student all the time, reading everything 
he could get hold of, which, however, was not a 
great deal. He studied his profession whilst he 
was paying a debt in the true old Virginia style 
— in jail. At that time all bankrupts were fur- 
nished boarding and lodging, and sometimes 
medical attendance, whilst paying their debts 
as bankrupts in prison. While he lay in jail, a 
kind medical friend was good enough to loan 
him the necessary books and give him instruc- 
tion in the divine art of healing the sick, and he 
came out of jail a fair medical practitioner for 
that date. Dr. Eoland was a man of fine tal- 
ents, kind and obliging to all, particularly so to 
young men. In 1840, while practicing medicine 
in this county, he was made probate judge, 



VKD1CAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 107 

which office he filled creditably. The last heard 
of Dr. Roland he was practicing medicine in 
Bloomfield, Iowa, where he located in 1848, and 
possibly died there years ago. 

Among the physicians who located in this 
county at later periods, 1839-1850, I may men- 
tion the following: 

Dr. Samuel M. Linton first located in Azalia, 
in 1839, coming to Columbus in 1842. He en- 
joyed a large practice and was an enthusiastic 
member of the Indiana State Medical Society.* 
He died in Columbus Dec. 28, 1889; his obitu- 
ary is found in the Transactions of 1890. 

Dr. Samuel Barbour settled here in 1843, 
coming from Rush County. After several years' 
practice in Columbus, he returned to Rushville, 
and later moved to Indianapolis, where he gave 
up the practice of medicine and became pro- 
prietor of the "Palmer House." 

Dr. George C. Comstock, a graduate of the 
Louisville Medical College, established himself 
in Columbus in 1841. He was a young man of 
fine professional promise and an amateur artist 
of no mean pretensions. Some of his portraits 
in oil are still preserved. After a few years of 
very successful practice in Columbus, he moved 
to Illinois, where he died of apoplexy, Jan. 28, 
1845. He had begun the practice of medicine 
when less than 20 years old, and, had he been 
spared, would have made a name for himself of 
which his friends might well be proud. 

Dr. Robert M. McClure came from Madison, 
Ind., where he was born; he was a graduate of 



* Elected president of the State Society in 1864. 



108 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

one of the medical colleges of Philadelphia. He 
located in Columbus in 1843, and enjoyed a fair 
practice while living in this city. He was a 
courteous, dignified gentleman, and bore the 
reputation of a careful and intelligent physician. 
He returned to Madison about 1853 and was 
highly respected in his new home, where he died 
several years ago. 

Dr. Isaac Fenley, who removed here from 
Jackson County about the year 1844, is one of 
the early physicians whose name is entitled to a 
place among the heroes in medicine. When the 
second call for volunteers was made for the Mex- 
ican War, in 1847, Dr. Fenley assisted in rais- 
ing a company in the Fourth Indiana Eegiment, 
and was commissioned lieutenant. Upon arriv- 
ing in Mexico, he was detached from his com- 
pany and assigned to duty as regimental sur- 
geon, in which capacity he served until the close 
of the war.* Returning to Columbus, in 1848, 
he at once resumed practice. In 1849 the cholera 
was brought to Columbus by German immigrants 
from New Orleans via the Mississippi and Ohio 
rivers. Many immigrants died and not a few 
citizens, Dr. Fenley among the list. He found 
in cholera a greater foe than Mexican bullets, 
but, like a true soldier, he died fighting — at his 
post. He was a brave man, honorable and hon- 
est, a fine surgeon and skilful physician. His 
loss was felt by the entire community; he is 
still spoken of with reverence by some of the old- 



* See reference to Dr. Isaac Fenley, in chapter. "Indiana 
Physicians in the Mexican War," p. 186. — G. W. H. K. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 109 

est inhabitant?. "Peace hath her victories, no 
less renowned than war." 

Dr. Homer T. Hinman, who first located in 
Hope, this county, came to this city in 1848. 
He practiced physic very successfully and satis- 
factorily for several years. He traveled for one 
year as grand masonic lecturer, visiting all the 
lodges in the state, after which he resumed prac- 
tice until his death in 1859, from "congestion 
of the stomach." He was an influential citizen, 
universally respected, and his untimely demise 
in the full prime of manhood caused general 
sorrow and regret. 

The gentlemen whose names appear in this 
list were all members of the "regular" school of 
medicine. In addition to these, there were other 
early doctors who located at Columbus and in 
the different settlements and villages of the 
county from time to time, but I am not in pos- 
session of sufficient knowledge concerning these 
to enable me to give them proper notice. 

It can not be said that our early doctors were 
all men of eminent scientific skill or training. 
Few of them held diplomas from medical col- 
leges, for seventy or eighty years ago medical 
colleges were not as thick in the land as now. 
The pioneer doctors learned all they knew by 
reading, observation and instruction under es- 
tablished practitioners and by their own after- 
experience. Men of fair education and good 
common sense in a few years gained good repu- 
tations as successful and safe physicians. They 
learned and were guided by actual practice more 
than by theorv or the formulas laid down in the 



110 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

few books they were able to procure. Each doc- 
tor carried his own remedial agents — a small 
drug store — in a pair of saddle-bags of huge 
dimensions, and dosed out with liberal hand. 
They rode on horseback to visit their patients, 
day or night, far or near, through the dense 
woods and over slashy paths and rough corduroy 
roads, fording or swimming streams and endur- 
ing innumerable hardships, which the physicians 
of the present day would not dare to encounter. 

During the years of the early settlement of 
the county, the numerous rivers and creeks were 
fouled and obstructed by fallen timber, drifts 
and other accumulations of vegetable debris. 
The waters from freshets and overflows stood 
reeking and stagnant on the lowlands and in the 
sloughs and bayous, and gave out their noxious 
exhalations for miles and miles around, while 
thick forests and tangled undergrowth, in rich 
and rank profusion, almost equalled the famed 
valley of the Amazon. The atmosphere was 
laden with pestilential miasma, particularly in 
the autumnal season, when biliary and malarial 
diseases were rife. Whole settlements were at 
times stricken down and rendered almost help- 
less. It is reliably stated that, in the fall of 
1821, there was. only one well man in the city 
of Columbus, a stalwart six-footer, who had 
evidently been brought up in a swamp. He was 
cook and nurse to the entire community, and 
his memory deserves to be perpetuated. 

The doctors found the ague, in many in- 
stances, more than a match for their skill. It 
was of the real shaking, quaking variety, the 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. Ill 

chill lasting not infrequently three or four hours, 
to be followed by raging fever and intense insa- 
tiable thirst. So malignant was this type of 
fever that as many as three or four deaths of 
adults have occurred in one family in less than 
forty-eight hours. Peruvian bark and calomel 
would temporarily check the fever, but cold 
weather seemed to be the only thing that would 
stop this dreadful scourge, and even this failed 
in some cases, and the poor invalid either wore 
himself out or else wore out the disease. (The 
relation of the mosquito to the prevalence of 
malaria was not then dreamed of.) In the early 
settlement, the "regulars" in the treatment of 
fever relied mainly upon one remedy — calomel. 
It was, indeed, extraordinary upon the part of the 
physician to treat any form of disease without the 
generous use of large doses of calomel. Not to 
salivate a patient seemed to be regarded as al- 
most allowing him or her to go to the grave 
without a saving effort. 

A patient "sick of a fever" must also be freely 
bled before an internal remedy w T as administered. 
The lancet held sway alongside of calomel. If, 
in raising a log cabin, a man was thrown from 
his "corner" and badly bruised, the practice was 
to bleed him copiously on the spot as the first 
step toward his recovery. 

While we of to-day may see many things to 
criticise in the methods of these pioneer physi- 
cians, we must all acknowledge that they stood 
out as shining lights in their day and genera- 
tion, the equals, if not the superiors, of their 
contemporaries in all the other walks of life. 



112 MEDICAL HISTORY OF J \ DIANA. 

They did their duty as citizens,, and as physi- 
cians they were always found doing their best 
"according to their lights." The physicians of 
Bartholomew County have succeeded to a noble 
heritage; may they prove worthy of their great 
responsibility. 

Note. — In the preparation of this article, I have been 
greatly indebted to the Hon. George Pence, ex-auditor of 
this county, for valuable information and for the privilege 
of perusing the notes and manuscripts left by the late 
Dr. .T. C. Beck, of Cincinnati, and some early publications 
by the Hon. W. H. Terrell, of Indianapolis, both natives 
of this county. — G. T. M. 

Note. — Drs. Isaac Fenley and Homer T. Hinman were 
present at the formation of the Indiana State Medical 
Society, June, 1849. — G. W. H. K. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Early Medical Men of Fayette County. — 

Early Medical History of Grant 

County. — Pioneer Physicians 

of Clay County. 

For the following very interesting report of 
the physicians of Fayette County I am indebted 
to Dr. H. M. Lamberson, of Connersville. 

Among the earliest physicians of whom we 
have any knowledge w T ho settled within the pres- 
ent limits of Fayette County were Drs. John 
Bradburn, James Thomas, Joseph Moffett, Tem- 
ple E. Gayle and Joseph S. Burr. 

Dr. John Bradburn was a native of Lancaster 
County, Pa., and as early as 1814 settled here 
in the vicinity of what is known as Harrisburg, 
in Fayette County. Hon. Oliver H. Smith, in 
his "Early Indiana Trials and Sketches," refers 
to him as an eminent surgeon, a man of great 
muscular power and of the most indomitable 
personal courage. The doctor's experience as a 
practitioner in this county was marred by a fear- 
ful tragedy, in which he became instrumental in 
the death of two young men in the spring of 
1825, he having killed them with a surgeon's 
knife, as they, with others, were going to carry 
him to a creek one evening in order to "duck" 



114 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

him.* Shortly after the tragedy he removed to 
the southern part of the state, and subsequently 
to the vicinity of Brookville, Ind., where he died 
in 1835. He is said to have been a regular grad- 
uate and highly respected and possessed of an 
inflexible will and great executive ability. 

Dr. James Thomas was a native of New York 
state and was one of a colony of emigrants that 
settled in the vicinity of Harrisburg in 1819. 

* "About twelve o'clock at night the party silently ap- 
proached the dwelling of the doctor and tried to open the 
door, but found it fast. The doctor was in bed in an ad- 
joining room, wide awake, with his large knife under his 
pillow, cool and prepared. The outside party placed an 
iron crow-bar, which they had brought with them, under 
the door, threw it off its hinges and entered the room, 
carrying with them the ropes prepared to tie the doctor 
before they took him from the house. In the meantime the 
doctor remained silently sitting upon his bed, with his 
knife in his hands. The room was dark. The party ad- 
vanced, feeling their way, until the foremost, young Alex- 
ander, about eighteen years of age, reached the bed. when 
he received a fatal stab with the knife, turned, rushed to 
the door, stepped out, and fell dead in the yard. Not a 
word was spoken. The next, young Caldwell, about twenty 
years of age, advanced, evidently not knowing the fate of 
Alexander until he came within the grasp of the doctor, 
when the fatal knife was thrust through his side, pene- 
trating his heart. He uttered a loud groan, turned, fled to 
the door, passed a short distance into the yard, fell and 
died near the body of Alexander. The groan of Caldwell 
alarmed the others, who immediately retreated for the door, 
pursued by the doctor, and one other of the party received 
a severe but not a mortal wound. Capt. Broaddus told me 
that at one time the doctor was between him and the door. 
and as he passed to go out the doctor struck at him with 
his knife, and just grazed his side. It was verv evident 
that but for the groan of Caldwell not one of the assail- 
ants would have left the house alive. Such was the awful 
tragedy at the house. The young men killed were of the 
very first families of the county, indeed of the state. The 
excitement was intense ; the doctor gave himself up and 
was put into jail. After the trial the jury retired but a 
few minutes and returned a verdict of not guilty, on the 
ground of self-defense. So ended this long-to-be-remembered 
case in old Favette." "Indiana Trials and Sketches," page 
15.— G. W. H. K. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 115 

Pie was a regular graduate and for years en- 
joyed a successful and lucrative practice. 

Dr. Joseph Moffett settled here about 1820. 
He was a native of New Haven, Conn., and a 
well-trained student fresh from Yale College. 
He died in 1833. 

About this time Drs. Temple E. Gayle and 
Joseph S. Burr came to Connersville and began 
the practice of medicine. Dr. Burr was a small, 
black-eyed man, wearing plain clothing, and 
speaking the plain language of "thee and thou." 
He came here from New Philadelphia, Ohio. 
Shortly after arriving here he had, for a sign, 
an enormous swamp lily root, almost as large as 
a man and cut to resemble one, nailed to the 
weather boarding of the hotel where he was stay- 
ing, with a chalk sign above, "Joseph S. Burr, 
root doctor, no calomel." He later engaged in 
the drug business. One acquainted with him 
said "he was a man of some medical knowledge, 
which he used with moderate success, while to 
his patrons he utterly denounced all doctor 
larnin' and made his claims on the 'root' sys- 
tem." His chief ability consisted of cunning and 
a knowledge of human nature. 

Dr. Temple E. Ga}de was a talented man, but 
died young, October, 1827, at the age of thirty- 
two years. The "Press" said of him, f "As a man 
of talent the doctor was excelled by few, if any, 
in the state; as a practicing physician he was 
eminently successful and popular." 

Dr. Philip Mason was a native of Massachu- 
setts, born Dec. 10, 1793, and settled in Fayette 
County in 1816. He finished his course of read- 



116 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIA* l. 

ing and clinical studies under Dr. Joseph Moffett 
of Connersville about 1824. He practiced in the 
vicinity of Connersville until 1830, part of the 
time on his farm in Columbia township, the bal- 
ance of the time at Orange, where he was in 
partnership with Dr. Jefferson Helm, who later 
moved to Eushville. In 1829 Dr. Mason was 
elected Probate Judge of Fayette County and 
served until 1834. The year following he was 
elected to the Legislature and twice re-elected 
to that body. He also served as Master of War- 
ren Lodge, F. and A. M., for thirteen years, and 
as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the state 
for eight years. 

Dr. Jefferson Helm, a native of Mason Coun- 
ty, Kentucky, was born in 1803. He studied 
medicine w r ith Drs. Moffett and Mason and was 
licensed to practice in 1827, locating at first at 
what is now Orange, later moving to Glen wood, 
where he remained until 1845, when he removed 
to Eushville. 

Dr. Hayman W. Clark was licensed to practice 
medicine at the same time with Dr. Helm in 
1827. Of his later history I have no record. 

In 1828 Dr. Samuel Miller located in Con- 
nersville, having come from Dayton, Ohio. 

Another practitioner who advertised in the 
Press of 1830 was Dr. Charles Barnes. 

Dr. Eyland T. Brown, a native of Lewis Coun- 
ty, Kentucky, came to Eush County in 1821, 
where he acted as a guide for land seekers until 
he attended a course at the Ohio Medical Col- 
lege at Cincinnati, where he graduated in 1829. 
In August, 1832, he located in Connersville and 



MEDICAL HISTORY or INDIANA. 117 

for several years was a partner of Dr. Mason. 
He remained in Connersville until 1842. In 
1854 he was appointed State Geologist by Gov- 
ernor Wright. In 1858 he was elected to the 
chair of Natural Science in the N. W. C. Uni- 
versity, at Indianapolis. He is author of a 
common school text-book of recognized merit, 
"Brown's Physiology.*' 

Dr. D. D. Hall, a A 7 irginian, located in Con- 
nersville, where he continued to practice, except 
for a few months while in the service as Surgeon 
of the Thirty-Sixth Regiment, Indiana Volun- 
teers, until his death, June 20, 1871. 

A published statement in 1846, giving the 
names of physicians practicing here, was Drs. 
Philip Mason, Samuel Miller, D. D. Hall, John 
Arnold, E. A. Bacon and S. W. Hughes, of Con- 
nersville; Greenbury Steele, Columbia township; 
Alfred Ruby, Alquina; George Winchel, Colum- 
bia; U. B. Tingley, Harrisburg; Amos Chap- 
man. Waterloo; Presley Libray, Everton, and 
Edward Daniels, Orange. 

Dr. George R. Chitwood was born in Gallia 
County, Ohio, May 10, 1805. He was licensed 
to practice medicine and surgery in 1830, lo- 
cated in Franklin County, Indiana, in 1831. He 
attended lectures at the Ohio Medical College 
1835-36. He removed to Liberty, Union County, 
in 1837. In 1846 he received the degree ol 
M.D. from Western Reserve Medical College at 
Cleveland and removed to Connersville in 1849. 
He was elected to the chair of General Pathol- 
ogy and Physical Diagnosis in the Cincinnati 
College of Medicine and Surgery in 1859, which 



118 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

he filled for the sessions 1859-60. He was then 
transferred to the chair of Obstetrics and Dis- 
eases of Women and Children, which he filled for 
six consecutive sessions, after which time he re- 
signed on account of domestic afflictions. 

On May 24, 1856, the physicians met and 
organized their first society, called the White 
Water Valley Medical Society, with the follow- 
ing as charter members: Drs. Samuel Miller, 
D. D. Hall, A. H. Chapman, W. J. Pepper, I)'. 
Trembly, W. W. Taylor, S. W. Vance, G. E. 
Chitwood, C. D. B. O'Ryan and V. H. Gregg, 
of Connersville ; B. S. Silory, A. H. Thompson 
and M. F. Miller, Everton ; H. W. Hazard, Ben- 
tonville; R. T. Gillum. Waterloo; U. B. Ting- 
ley, Harrisburg. Dr. W. J. Pepper finished his 
reading under G. R. Chitwood and began prac- 
ticing in Connersville at this time. 

On April 22, 1858, they changed the name of 
the White Water Valley Medical Society to the 
Fayette County Medical Society and continued 
its organization until 1861. In the meantime 
Dr. W. W. Taylor, who located in Connersville 
some years before, died in 1859. 

Dr. Vincent H. Gregg entered the army as 
Surgeon in the 124th Regiment Indiana Volun- 
teers, in the First Brigade, First Division, Twen- 
ty-Third Army Corps, and served in the Depart- 
ment of the Cumberland under General Sher- 
man until the close of the war. 

Dr. Joshua Chitwood, a son of Dr. George R. 
Chitwood, graduated in medicine in 1858 and 
entered the army as Surgeon in the Seventh 
Regiment, Indiana Cavalry. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. Ill) 

Dr. George W. Garver located in Connersville 
in 1865, having served in the United States 
Navy as Assistant Surgeon on the Western Flo- 
tilla, Department of the Mississippi. 

Dr. S. W. Hughes died in 1865. 

In 1866 the Fayette County Medical Society 
was reorganized. 

"The above data of the early medical history 
of Fayette County was mostly compiled from an 
earlier history of medicine of the county writ- 
ten twenty-five years ago by Dr. S. M. Hamil- 
ton, now practicing in this county, he in turn 
having obtained it from the pioneers then liv- 
ing in this locality."' — H. M. L. 

Dr. S. M. Hamilton also unearthed the his- 
tory of one Caleb Smith, who enjoyed quite a 
reputation as a "bonesetter" and was the first 
practitioner in this part of the state, as far as 
we know. He says : "It will not be out of place 
in the medical and surgical history of what is 
now known as Fayette County to mention the 
name of Caleb Smith, who practiced the heal- 
ing art among the first white people of the 
woods. He was born in England in 1775, and 
came to New England with his father, an Eng- 
lish surgeon, about the year 1797. The young 
man married in Norwich, Conn., and came west 
and settled seven miles west of south of Conners- 
ville in 1807, where he practiced medicine and 
surgerv. He died in 1821 and was buried on his 
farm." 

Graxt County Medical Society. 
On the 16th day of June, 1898, Grant County 
Medical Societv held its anniversarv of the first 



120 VEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

half century of its existence. At this meeting 
Dr. A. A. Hamilton read a very interesting re- 
port of its medical history during the half cen- 
tury just closed, and to this paper I am indebted 
for the facts contained in this article. 

The boundaries of Grant County were estab- 
lished by the Legislature in February, 1831, and 
in May of the same year the county seat was 
located at its present site by the commissioners 
and named in honor of General Francis Marion. 

In 1830, one year before the organization of 
the county, Dr. Henry Buchman installed him- 
self in a small cabin on the banks of the Missis- 
sinewa Eiver just beyond the present city limits 
of Marion. He was the first physician to locate 
in Grant County. In the transactions for 1875 
Dr. Lomax gives his name as Buchanan, but this 
is either a typographical error or a mistake of 
Dr. Lomax, Buchman being the correct name. 
After ministering to the professional wants of 
the sparsely settled neighborhood for a few years 
he removed to the west, where later he died. 

Dr. Joseph Cadwallader was the second physi- 
cian to locate in the county and first in the town 
of Marion, somewhere between the years 1831 
and 1833. He spent some two or three years in 
the county in the practice of his profession, and 
he and his wife both died in this new home. 

Dr. Ezra Stiles Trask, a native of Vermont, 
was the third physician to locate in Marion in 
1833. Dr. Trask originally located in what was 
then known as Muncietown, at an early period 
in its history, removing to Marion, as stated, in 
the year 1833. He practiced medicine after a 



MEDICAL HISTOID OF INDIANA. 121 

sort until the year 1839, at which time he died, 
leaving a most amiable wife and two very prom- 
ising sons, and is buried somewhere in the cem- 
etery at Marion. An impression prevailed among 
the physicians at Marion that he was a graduate 
of Dartmouth Medical College.* 

Dr. John Foster (1813-1870), a native of High- 
land County, Ohio, located in Marion in 1834 
and entered upon the active duties of his profes- 
sion with fair prospects of success. Unfortu- 
nately he yielded to the allurements held out by 
other employments, giving himself at various 
times to the mercantile business, the sale of 
drugs, politics, the ministry, etc., but never en- 
tirely abandoning the medical profession. He 
served one term in the State Senate and devoted 
several years of his life to the work of the itiner- 
ant ministry of the M. E. Church, and at the 
time of his death was a local preacher in that 
denomination. Dr. Foster was one of the found- 
ers of the Grant County Medical Society. He 
died at Warsaw, Ind., in the fall of 1870. re- 
spected by all who knew him. 

Dr. Samuel St. John, a native of Connecticut 
and a graduate in 1815 of a Few York medical 
college, came to Marion in 1845, after having 
practiced several years at various places in New 
York, Ohio, Alabama and Mississippi. He fol- 
lowed the work of his profession here for the 



* Possibly this is an error. Mr. Ernest M. Hopkins, 
secretary of Dartmouth College, writes me February 8, 
1007, as follows : "He was not a graduate of the college, 
or any of the associated schools. We have no early records 
about men who were students here but who did not grad- 
uate. I am, therefore, unable to say whether or not Dr. 
Trask ever attended the college." — G. W. H. K. 



122 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

ensuing nine years and then removed to Lagro. 
In 1S60 lie returned to Marion and engaged in 
the sale of drug?. He continued in this business 
until the time of his death, Jan. 10, 1862. Dr 
St. John was one of the original members of the 
Grant County Medical Society and its first presi- 
dent. 

Dr. W. F. Spence was born in West Moreland 
County, Pennsylvania, and, after attending a 
medical college in Cincinnati, located in Alexan- 
dria, this state, where he practiced medicine for 
some years. In 1846 he removed to Jonesboro, 
where he sold drugs and, when able, practiced 
his profession. 

In the year 1847 Dr. Samuel S. Home, a na- 
tive of Scotland and a graduate of the University 
of Edinburgh, located in Jonesboro and at once 
took up his professional duties. He was un- 
selfish, a wise counselor, and an experienced, 
learned and efficient physician. After a long 
and useful professional life he died April 19, 
1874. 

Dr. John A. Meek of Wayne County located 
in Jonesboro on the 14th day of February, 1848 
The doctor served as Surgeon of the Eighty- 
Ninth Eegiment Indiana Volunteers during the 
Civil War. 

Sketches of several other Grant County physi- 
cians will appear elsewhere. 

The Grant County Medical Society was organ- 
ized on the 16th day of June, 1848, and the 
following physicians were present at the forma- 
tion of the society: Drs. John Foster, J. S. 
Shively, Samuel St. John, S. D. Ayres, A. W. 






MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 123 

Henley, William Lomax and Constantine Lomax, 
assembling at the latter's office. At the next 
meeting, held July 5, 1848, a constitution was 
adopted and officers were elected. 

A review of the records of the society will 
show that during the half century just closed 
one hundred and twenty-five names have been, 
entered upon its roll of membership. Forty, at 
least, of these (1898) have already joined the 
silent majority. Others have lost their identity 
with the society by removing to other fields of 
labor, while a few have been expelled from the 
society for unprofessional conduct. 

"In the seventies the Grant County Medical 
Society purchased a hall of its own on the north 
side of the public square in Marion. This hall 
is large and commodious, is nicely carpeted, and 
is well furnished with desks, tables and chairs, 
and all that is necessary for the use and comfort 
of its members. An expensive microscope and 
other instruments necessary for the prosecution 
of the work of the society have been added from 
time to time, until now the society is the owner 
of much valuable property. 

"Many years ago the society adopted the plan 
of arranging along the side walls of the audi- 
torium large and elegantly framed portrait 
paintings of its deceased presidents. This mark 
of respect on the part of the association has 
already been conferred upon quite a number of 
the older members of the society, most of whom 
had been elected one or more times to fill the 
presiding officer's chair. 



124 MEDICAL HISTORY OF I Mil l.Y.l. 

"That the society lias made good use of its 
time when in session during the years gone h\ 
is amply attested by the hundreds of medical 
essays now on file in its archives, which have 
been read and discussed in its hearing during 
the five decades just ended, and the thousands 
of pages of closely written matter to be found 
in the several large volumes of its transactions, 
dealing, for the most part, with subjects of a 
professional nature, giving additional proof of 
the vast amount of work of a scientific character 
which has been accomplished by this body since 
its organization." 

Pioxeer Physicians of Clay County. 

by g. w. fixley, brazil, ixd. 

Eeplying to your inquiry for data as to pioneer 
physicians of Clay County, I have been able, 
after diligent inquiry and search of old records, 
to collect memoranda as to several whose names 
do not appear in Transactions of the State So- 
ciety. 

The very earliest of whom I can find mention 
are Drs. Ephraim Kester and Absalom Briley, 
who came to the southern part of what is now 
Clay county about 1818 or 1820, from Ken- 
tucky, several years before the county was or- 
ganized. Although never located in towns, they 
did extensive practice among early settlers over 
a radius of twenty-five miles from their homes. 
They died in 1873 and 1878, respectively, each 
having reached the age of eighty-five. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF IXDIAXA. 125 

Dr. Nathaniel Usher, born in New York, 1792 
died in Brazil, Ind., 1875, after forty years* 
practice in this county. 

Dr. William H. Gifford, born in Kentucky, 
1804, came to Williamstown, Ind., 1839, died at 
Brazil, 1890, after fifty-one years' practice, leav- 
ing a son, Joseph C, and a grandson, William 
H., as worthy successors in the work. 

Dr. W. B. Hawkins, born at Washington, Pa., 
1814, died in Brazil, Ind., 1891, after forty-five 
years' work in Indiana, leaving a son, Eobert 
W., a physician here. 

Dr. James M. Price, born in Virginia, 1827, 
died in Brazil, 1895, having practiced in this 
county thirty-five years. His son, Dr. John Price, 
died before his father. 

Dr. John Gilfillan had a wide practice from 
Centerpoint for forty years in the early history 
of the county and died there in 1876. 

Dr. John Williams of Bowling Green, still liv- 
ing at the age of ninety-seven, practiced there 
from 1830 until feebleness compelled his retire- 
ment in 1900. 

I regret very much the incompleteness of our 
early records. 



CHAPTEE XIV. 



Early Physicians of Franklin County. — 

Medical Men of Ripley County. — 

Kosciusko County. — White 

County. 

The following list comprises only a portion of 
the names of physicians of Franklin County. I 
am under obligations to Dr. C. H. Mayfield, of 
Brookville, for this interesting paper. A num- 
ber of names will be found in the alphabetical 
list elsewhere. 

George Berry (1811-1892) was born in Rock- 
ingham County, Virginia, Feb. 17, 1811. He 
began practice in Brookville in 1832, and for 
many years was the principal surgeon of that re- 
gion. With one exception he was the oldest 
practitioner in the White Water Valley at the 
time of his death, March 19, 1892. He was a 
surgeon in the Mexican war with the Sixteenth 
Regiment, IT. S. Infantry. He was elected State 
Senator in 1843-46, and again in 1849. He was 
a member of the Constitutional Convention of 
1852. 

Thomas W. Colescott (1816-1900) was born 
in Caroline Count}', Maryland, Feb. 8, 1816. He 
practiced in Brookville until 1878, when he was 
compelled to retire from active practice on ac- 
count of ill health. He held the chair of anat- 
omy in the University of Louisville for several 
years and was surgeon in charge of the hospitals 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 127 

in and about Louisville during the Civil war. 
He was regarded as one of the best surgeons 
of Franklin County. 

John B. Davis (1807-1869) was born at 
Brookfield, N. Y., Julv 2, 1807; died in Brook- 
ville July 14, 1869. 

Thomas Gilford (1816-1885) was born at 
Penn Yan, Yates County, New York, Dec. 17, 
1816; graduated from Ohio Medical College in 
1846. He was elected to the General Assembly 
of the state in 1858 and was re-elected; elected 
State Senator in 1862 and re-elected; died June 
14, 1885. 

John R. Goodwin (1820-1880) was born at 
Brookville July 15, 1820; graduated at Depauw 
University in 1845; later at the Ohio Medical 
College; practiced in Brookville until beginning 
of the Civil war; he was surgeon of the Thirty- 
Seventh Eegiment Indiana Volunteers until close 
of war; then for eight years was in the Depart- 
ment of the Interior under Johnson and Grant ; 
later was engaged in banking business until his 
death, May 3, 1880. 

Bufus Haymond (1805-1886) was born in 
Clarksburg, W. Va., June 5, 1805. He came 
to Brookville in 1826. He was a member of 
the State Legislature and was a naturalist of 
national reputation, contributing articles of 
value. He had charge of the geological survey 
of Franklin County in 1869. Died at Brook- 
ville July 29, 1886^ 

Judah Hinkley (1801-1875) was born in 
Massachusetts March 10, 1801; came to Indiana 
in 1820 and began practice in Springfield town- 



128 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

Bhip, Franklin County, and continued until 
1868, when he retired and removed to Oxford, 
Ohio. Died July 6, 1875. 

John H. Quick (1818-1906) was born near 
Brookville Oct. 22, 1818; began practice June 1, 
1840, at Drewersburg, Franklin County; then 
Cedar Grove, in same county, in 1842, and at 
Brookville from 1854 to the time of his death, 
Oct. 13, 1906. 

John Cleaver (1796-1865) was not a graduate 
of a medical college. 

Cornelius Cain (1808-1903) was born near 
Wilmington, Dela., Aug. 1, 1808; came to In- 
diana and settled in Brookville in 1827; later 
practiced medicine at Metamora and Laurel. In 
1857 located at Clarksburg, where he continued 
to reside until his death, which occurred June 
28, 1903. 

Erasmus Darwin Crookshank* (1807-1876) 
was born at Whitehall, N". Y., April 28, 1807: 
located at Fairfield about 1838; was elected to 
the State Legislature in 1844; in 1849 he re- 
moved to Hamilton County, Ohio, near Cheviot, 
where he continued to practice medicine until 
his death, March 4, 1876. — Letter from Florence 
M. Tait, Cheviot, a granddaughter. 

The following physicians practiced in Brook- 
ville at the dates indicated: 

Lovel, 1810; Johnson, 1816; George D. Mur- 
dock, 1816; J. E. Bush, 1819; Joseph Moffett,. 
1818; Temple E. Gayle, 1820; John, Jr., 1821: 

* I give the spelling of the granddaughter, but notice 
that in other instances it is spelled "CruikshanU." 
— G. W. H. K. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. L29 

Morris, 1821; Isaac G. John, 1824; B. S. Noble, 
1830; T. J. Cogley, 1836; Whipple, 1836; 
Thomas Kennedy, 1847; William Coster, 1847. 
and Joseph Chitwood, 1838. 

Medical Men of Ripley County. 

In reply to an inquiry Dr. James Anderson, 
of Versailles, has kindly furnished me with 
some records of the early physicians of that 
county. 

He says that he was well acquainted with Dr. 
W. T. S. Cornett, who practiced here until about 
1868, when he removed to Madison. 

Dr. James K. Francis practiced at Cross 
Plains, Eipley County, Indiana, from 1844 to 
about 1852, dying there during that year. 

Dr. Richard B. Conn practiced in Ripley 
County about 1848 to 1850, when he removed to 
Champaign, 111., and practiced there for some 
years. 

Drs. Cornett, Francis, Alexander J. Mullen 
and Conn were present at the formation of the 
State Medical Society in June, 1849. 

Dr. William Anderson practiced medicine and 
surgery at Versailles from 1839 to 1861, and 
was surgeon of the Thirty-seventh Regiment In- 
diana Volunteers for three years and staff sur- 
geon one year longer. At the close of the war 
he returned to this place and practiced from 
1865 to 1880. 

Drs. Alexander J. Mullen and Bernard F. 
Mullen, brothers, practiced at Napoleon for 
many years. Dr. Bernard F. Mullen was Colonel 
of the Thirty-fifth Regiment Indiana Volunteers 



130 UEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

and Dr. Alexander J. Mullen was Burgeon of the 
same regiment. Dr. Bernard died at Indianap- 
olis some years after the close of the Civil war. 
Dr. Alexander went to St. Louis after he came 
from the army and practiced there for some 
years, dying in that place. 

The late Major Jonathan AY. Gordon practiced 
medicine at Versailles during the years 18-46 
and 1847. Later he took up the study and prac- 
tice of law. 

Kosciusko County Medical Society. 

I am indebted to Dr. C. X. Howard, Secretary 
of the Kosciusko County Medical Society, for the 
following notes, which he gleaned from the "New 
Historical Atlas of Kosciusko County." 

At the session of the General Assembly of 
1834-5 the boundaries of Kosciusko County were 
defined and established. It was named by Hon. 
John B. Chapman after Thaddeus Kosciusko, the 
young Polish nobleman of distinguished family, 
who aided the American cause during the war of 
the Revolution, being one of General Washing- 
ton's staff officers. 

The Kosciusko County Medical Society was 
incorporated Jan. 21, 1847, by the General As- 
sembly of the State of Indiana. Among the first 
members of the society were Drs. Bowland Wil- 
lard, G. AY. Stacey, J. K. Leedy, Edward E. 
Parks, William S. Sarber, D. Bowman, S. C. 
Gray, L. B. Boggs, J. A. Chandler, L. E, Terry, 
William Parks, Henry Gilbert, F. AY. Taylor, 
John Jackson, Z. C. Johnson, A. B. Grichfield, 
E. M. Kendall and G. AY. Kosdick. 



MEDICAL EISTORY OF INDIANA. 131 

Webber, Irwin W. (1846-1907) commenced 
the practice of his profession in Warsaw, Kos- 
ciusko County, in 1870. For a time he was 
United States Pension Examiner at Warsaw. He 
was President of the Kosciusko County Medical 
Society in 1887, and was Secretary of the So- 
ciety at the time of his death. 

Woolley, Amos (1829-1899) came to Kos- 
ciusko County in 1857, practicing medicine at 
Palestine. In 1869 he removed to Warsaw. In 
1866 he assisted in the organization of the Med- 
ical College at Fort Wayne, Ind., and afterward 
graduated with honor from that institution. 

White County Medical Society. 

Drs. Grant Goodwin and F. E. Lister, of 
Monticello, have furnished me the following in- 
formation concerning physicians of White 
County who have not been heretofore reported 
in the Transactions. 

The White County Medical Society was or- 
ganized in April, 1862. The charter members 
were Drs. Hamen and Anderson, Monticello ; 
Richardson, Monon; Thomas, Eeynolds, and 
Medaris, of Brookston. 

Dr. William H. Ball was born in Henry 
County, Kentucky, Jan. 23, 1823. He began 
practice at Battle Ground, Ind., about 1851. He 
was a graduate of a medical college at Louisville, 
Ky. He practiced in Brookston from 1856 to 
1880, then moved to California, where he died in 
1890. 

Dr. Timothy Taylor attended first session of 
lectures at Starling Medical College in 1847 and 



L32 MEDICAL HISTORY OF I\DI L.Y.I. 

ISIS. He began to practice in Brookston about 
L850, and left here March 1, 1859. He died in 
\^^>. near Richmond, Ind. 

Dr. John Medaris came to Brookston in 
March, 1859, and has practiced here ever since. 
He was born Oct. 22, 1814. Dr Broekway writes 
me Jan. 30, 1911 : "Dr. Medaris is still alive and 
feeling good/'* 

Older Physicians of Steuben County. 

I am under obligations to Dr. Mary Ritter, of 
Angola, for the following list of pioneer physi- 
cians of Steuben County: 

Drs. James McConnell, Angola (1810-1844) ; 
George W. McConnell, Angola (1816-1894) ; L. 

E. Carver, Angola (1806-1889) ; J. C. Kmisey, 

Angola (1819 ) ; C. D. Rice, Angola 

(1828-1875); William Weicht, Angola (1822- 
1889); W. A. Wood, Angola (1827-1868); M. 

F. Morse, Angola (1814-1898). 

* I have departed from my usual rule of omitting liv- 
ing physicians, but this man, at the age of ninety-six. 
engaged in an active practice of medicine, deserves this 
little recognition. — G. W. H. K. 



CHAPTER XV. 



Early Medical History of Fountain County. 
Early Physicians of Jackson County. 

Dr. George Rowland, Covington, Ind., has 
transmitted to me a very interesting paper on 
the medical history of Fountain County, and I 
only regret that the length of the paper prevents 
the complete publication of the same. 

On Dec. 30, 1825, the Legislature passed a law 
creating Fountain County. On the first Monday 
in May, 1826, the boundaries of the county were 
fixed and the county seat established at Cov- 
ington. 

The following named physicians met in Cov- 
ington on the first Thursday in April, 1867, and 
organized the Fountain County Medical Society : 
Drs. C. V. Jones, President, Samuel J. Weldon. 
Secretary; C. D. Watson, G. S. Jones, William 
Colvert, William C. Cole and George Rowland. 

Dr. John Hamilton, born in Saratoga County, 
New York, Jan. 7, 1800, came to Covington 
March 31, 1827, and made it his permanent 
home. He was the first physician to locate in 
Fountain County. He was a pioneer and a busy 
practitioner of medicine, riding on horseback 
from ten to sixty miles a day, along by-paths, as 
there were few roads. Milk sickness and fever 
and ague prevailed. Medicines were few and 
commanded a high price and were brought from 
Cincinnati on a steamboat up the Wabash River 



]:U MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

to Covington. Dr. Hamilton was a successful 
physician, a graduate of the medical college at 
Burlington, Vt. He also started the first drug- 
store in this county at Covington. 

Dr. John Crawford came to Fountain County 
in 1828. He was educated in Philadelphia and 
a graduate of the Medical College of Ohio. He 
died Sept. 29, 1847. Dr. Crawford was well 
versed in medicine and a successful practitioner 
and a man of few words. 

Dr. Hitchcock was an early pioneer and came 
to this city in 1829, hut soon afterward went to 
the Black Hawk war. 

Dr. Jesse Bowen practiced medicine in the 
county from 1829 to 1840. 

Dr. Joseph Jones came in 1832. He was a 
peculiar man, tall and the people nicknamed him 
"Long Jones." There were several other Dr. 
Jones, and Dr. "Long Jones" tried to have the 
Legislature change his name to Talbott, the 
maiden name of his mother. 

Dr. Keely came in 1833 and remained but a 
short time, when he removed to Iowa. 

Dr. John S. Jones, nicknamed "Picayune," 
came in 1834. He was a druggist, but practiced 
medicine to some extent. 

Dr. Lorenzo Push came to this county in 1840. 
He was a good physician, scientific and well ed- 
ucated. He was tall, dignified, gentlemanly and 
a popular physician. 

Dr. Irish came in 1844 and was a successful 
physician, serving later as a surgeon in the CiviJ 
war. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 135 

Dr. Reuben M. Hill came to Fountain County 
in 1847 and located at Covington. He was a 
scientific physician and well versed in medicine. 
He had an extreme disgust for quackery, en- 
joyed a large practice and was quite a money 
maker. He was a bachelor. Later in life he 
was a great sufferer from a chronic disease, from 
which he secured no permanent relief, and on 
July 5, 1880, at the noon hour, while his nurse 
had gone for a luncheon, committed suicide, 
shooting himself through the head. 

Dr. Jehu Adkins read medicine with Dr. 
"Long" Jones, above mentioned; graduated in 
Chicago, and located in Jackson Township in 
1847. He was 'a popular physician and had a 
great reputation in the treatment of milk sick- 
ness, which was then very prevalent; also se- 
cured quite a reputation by the performance of 
an operation for club foot upon a child six 
months old. At the time of his death he was 
the owner of nearly twelve hundred acres of 
land, bought at a low price, and subsequently 
increased in value until he amassed a fortune. 

Drs. 0. S. Maxwell and Bell located at Rob- 
roy in 1833. Dr. Cox located at Portland in 
1830. Dr. Scott located at Newton in 1834. Dr. 
Worthington located at Attica in 1830. Dr. Rob- 
ert Stevens located near old Chambersburg dur- 
ing the forties. Dr. Knight located in old Cham- 
bersburg before the Civil War. He was very 
deaf and always rode in an old-fashioned gig. 
Dr. Greenwood came in the forties and prac- 
ticed at Robroy. Dr. Marquam, an eccentric 
man, located in old Chambersburg during the 
Civil War. He practiced in the southeast part 



136 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

of the county from 1855 to 1860. He was in- 
dicted for murder by producing an abortion. In 
the trial he was prosecuted and defended by emi- 
nent counsel and was acquitted. 

Dr. Newton Spinning probably practiced med- 
icine longer than any other physician in Foun- 
tain County — a period of more than fifty years. 
He died of pneumonia, result of lagrippe, on 
Feb. 11, 1890. 

Dr. Thomas Rowland, my father, was born in 
Loudon County, Virginia, July 25, 1810, and 
read medicine with Dr. Crawford, already men- 
tioned. He located in Hillsboro in 1839, and 
afterward located at old Chambersburg, and was 
a busy and successful practitioner of medicine 
until his death, which occurred in August, 1864. 
He was well versed in medicine and had an ex- 
tensive practice in obstetrics and diseases of 
women. He was a fine conversationalist and 
loved to mangle with medical men. 

Dr. Caleb V. Jones came to Covington in the 
fall of 1840 and practiced medicine for forty 
years. Dr Jones was surgeon in the civil war. 

Dr. William Colvert located near Stone Bluff; 
was a distinguished pioneer physician of Foun- 
tain County. He was born in Ohio in 1819, and 
came to this county during his boyhood, attended 
the University of Greencastle and afterward read 
medicine with Dr. Crawford. He was a suc- 
cessful physician from 1847 to his death, which 
occurred a few years ago. Before reading medi- 
cine he taught for some years in the public 
schools, and his most noted pupil was the Hon. 
D. W. Voorhees. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 137 

Dr. Joseph Ogden came to this county in the 
early forties. He was an excellent physician. 
Dr. Waite located in this county at an early 
date. Dr. Bryant was also an early pioneer. Dr. 
Chester Clark came at an early date to Coving- 
ton, but in later years abandoned the practice 
for the nursery business. Dr. McElwee came to 
the county after the Civil War. Dr. John S. 
Riffle began the study of medicine in 1849. He 
practiced medicine at Newton and in Veeders- 
burg, and was a member of the United States 
pension board after 1867. He was an assistant 
surgeon in the Fortieth Regiment, Indiana Vol- 
unteers. Drs. Miles and Sherman were practi- 
tioners at one time at Newtown. 

Dr. James C. Burlington graduated in 1877 
from Cincinnati Medical College. Located at 
Attica in 1878. Died several years ago. Dr. A. 
L. Whitehall practiced near Newtown in 1832. 
and later at Attica until his death. Dr. Samuel 
Fullenwider at an early date practiced at New- 
town. Dr. Leach at one time practiced at At- 
tica; removed to Crawfordsville and later to 
Park County. Dr. George C. Hays located at 
Hillsboro and died there after a long practice. 
He was a graduate of the Medical College of 
Indiana. Dr. John W. Mock, a graduate of a 
medical college of Ohio, 1863, was a surgeon in 
the One Hundred and Eleventh Regiment, Ohio 
Volunteers. 

Dr. Samuel J. Weldon was born in London, 
England, June, 1801, and graduated in New 
York City. He was well versed in medicine, a 
fine conversationalist and a prominent druggist. 



L38 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

Be was present at the formation of the Indiana 
State Medical Society in 1849, and also at the 
organization of the Fountain Count}' Medical 
Society in April, 1867. Died in 1881. 

Dr. Samuel I. Mock graduated at the Medical 
College of Ohio in 1874; came to Covington in 
in 1879, and afterward removed to Iowa, where 
he died shortly afterward. Dr. C. D. Watson, a 
graduate of Rush Medical College, came to Cov- 
ington, was present at the organization of the 
Fountain County Medical Society, and afterward 
removed to California. Dr. John T. Wells prac- 
ticed in Veedersburg in 1876. Dr. A. J. McLel- 
land practiced at Veedersburg for some years 
and died in that village. 

Early Phtsiciaxs of Jackson Codxty. 

For the facts in the histories of the following 
physicians I am indebted to Dr. A. G. Osterman. 
of Seymour, Ind., the paper being forwarded to 
me by Dr. G. H. Kamman, Secretary of the 
Jackson County Medical Society. 

The history of the early physicians of Jack- 
son County is not very well known. Tradition 
tells of Dr. Dudley, who located in this county 
and platted the village of Dudley town in 1810. 
While the more populous parts of the county of 
that time, Vallonia and Brownstown, certainly 
had physicians, yet nothing authentic is known 
of their names. 

Dr. Samuel Wert, of German parentage, was 
born in Pennsylvania in 1794; graduated from 
Jefferson Medical College in 1810; after an 
eventful career in the Spanish navy and in Mex- 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 139 

ico, located in Brownstown in 1825, where he 
practiced successfully until 1863, the year of his 
death. 

Dr. Solomon Jackson, the next physician of 
whom we hear, practiced in Rockford in 1835. 

Drs. James Crippen and David Vanuise were 
at Reddington about 1838. The late Dr. Wilson 
located near the present village of Sparksville 
about the same time. Two more physicians were 
at Vallonia whose names are not known to the 
author. This was about the number of physi- 
cians who were located in the county up to 1840. 
With the increase of population between the for- 
ties and fifties physicians began to locate in the 
county. 

Dr. James H. Green began practice in Dudley- 
town in 1846. Dr. Stage then located at what is 
now known as Sidney about the same time. 

The first county society was organized on April 
13, 1852. Dr. Wert was its first president, Dr. 
D. B. Hillis vice-president, Dr. J. L. Roe record- 
ing secretary, and Dr. E. Long librarian. Other 
rnembers present were Drs. Ford, Morgan and 
Bain. At a meeting two months later Drs. John 
Williamson, James H. Green, C. T. Williamson, 
J. T. Monroe, E. D. Wert and S. H. Charlton 
were elected to membership. 

Dr. Brand, a graduate of Vienna and a pupil 
of the elder Rokitansky, located at Rockford 
in 1848. Dr. Roesgen, a graduate of Heidelberg 
and Bonn, located at Dudleytown in 1851; both 
these men were well grounded in medicine and 
were gentlemen of remarkable diagnostic talents, 
who added credit to their profession, as well as 



140 MEDICAL E18T0RY OF INDIANA. 

the profession of southern Indiana, during their 
sojourn among the people of Jackson County. 
These were all the members of the profession, as 
far as the author is able to say, that were lo- 
cated in the county up to 1852. 

During the sixties Drs. Shoots and Rodman 
were at Freetown, Drs. Joseph Davis, Bain and 
Shields at Cortland, Dr. Fields at Tampico, Dr. 
Wells at Clear Spring, Drs. Cummings and Gib- 
son at Houston, Drs. John T. Shields, Newkirk 
and J. D. Monroe located at Seymour. Dr. 
Tinsh began the practice of medicine about the 
same time, but his first location is unknown. Dr. 
Eobertson located at Vallonia, and a physician 
whose name is unknown practiced for a few 
years at what is now known as Newry. 

At a meeting of the Board of County Commis- 
sioners in June, 1862, a petition referring to 
the pauper practice of the county was presented 
to the board, signed by the following physicians, 
then in active practice in the county, but not 
all members of the county society: Drs. Wert, L. 
J. Stage, C. T. Williamson, L. Z. Shewmaker, 
Jacob Boaz, T. A. Williamson, J. H. Payne, 
Fields, Smith, Kimberline, Maxwell, Bland, Sap- 
per, Hatfield, Daniels, Ramsey, Robertson, Green 
and Bain. These men were all in active practice 
in this county. 

In those days there were scarcely any well de- 
fined roads and patients were far apart. Visits 
were made on horseback and the ample saddle 
bags were always the badge of the doctor. It 
was before the days of refinement of pharmacy. 
Roots, herbs and barks were the armamentarium 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 141 

of the practitioner. Calomel and jalap were 
dealt unsparingly. The bitter "Peruvian bark and 
the lancet were their only fever remedies. An- 
esthesia was unknown; but this did not deter 
them from performing major and minor opera- 
tions. They worked sometimes under the most 
trying conditions. Those early days were truly 
heroic ones; no less for the physician than the 
patient. Yet, with all this seeming primitiveness 
and the limited means of practicing medicine 
and surgery, these men were successful and their 
patients lived to bless them. The earlier and 
older ones have all passed away. Some rest in 
unmarked graves. Xo lordly monuments com- 
memorate the spot made sacred as the resting 
place of these heroes; yet heroes these men 
were. They performed the most heroic service, 
and oftentimes without reward, at the call of 
their patients, at any hour, in storm and stress 
and in midnight darkness, with nothing to guide 
them, and oftentimes straying from the road or 
path ; yet they performed these labors with pleas- 
ure and their reward was only the welfare and 
health of their patients. Truly they bore the 
cross to attain the crown ; the justice of a better 
world will be their reward. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



FOBMATION AND GROWTH OF OUR PRESENT 

State Medical Association. — List of 

Membership from Formation to 

the Year 1860. 

Inasmuch as but one or two copies of the early 
Transactions of our State Medical Society are 
known to be in existence, and these exposed to 
the clangers of fire or decay of time, I think it 
proper to reprint some historical data that ought 
not to be lost or forgotten.* 

I have access to the copies in the Indianapolis 
City Library. These were generously presented 
to the library by Dr. L. D. Waterman on Dec. 1, 
1898. 

I find no evidence that a formal or informal 
call was made for the meeting to assemble at 
Indianapolis, but presume such a request had 
been made.f I quote as follows: 

"The State Medical convention assembled in 
Wesley Chapel, at Indianapolis, on Wednesday, 
June 6, 1849, at 10 o'clock a. m. A temporary 
organization was effected by calling Dr. John 

* Since 1904, "Society" is changed to "Association." 
t Since writing the above, I find that notice had been 
given for such a meeting : "Indianapolis had a local Medi- 
cal Society, and in May, 1849, a call was sent out by it 
for a State Convention the following month. Private 
letters were sent by the members to their medical friends 
over the State inviting them to attend the meeting to be 
held June 6, 1849." Dr. W. IT. Wishard, President's ad- 
dress. — Trans. 1889, p. 17. — G. W. H. K. 




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Sanders to the chair and appointing Dr. John 
S. Bobbs Secretary." 

Some discussions have occurred as to who was 
the first President of the State Society, but that 
subject is easily determined by a reference to 
the Transactions.* The first copy shows the title 
page as follows : "Proceedings of the State Med- 
ical Convention of Indiana, held at Indianapolis, 
June, 1849. Indianapolis: Printed by John D. 
Defrees, 1849." It is a pamphlet of fourteen 
pages. 

It will be observed that the meeting was styled 
"Convention/ 7 and not "Society." In fact, it 
was not regarded by those present as a regular 
meeting of the society, but rather an assembly 
for the organization of a state society. It was 
the Declaration of Independence for medical so- 
cieties in Indiana! 

The title page of the second copy of Transac- 
tions reads quite differently: "Proceedings of 
the First Annual Meeting of the Indiana State 
Medical Society, held in the city of Indianapolis. 
May, 1850. Indianapolis: Printed by Elder & 
Harkness, 1850." This is a pamphlet containing 
thirty-two pages. It is styled a "Society" now. 
and is recorded as the "First." This is the be- 
ginning for numbering the other Transactions. 

At the "convention" Dr. John H. Sanders was 
called temporarily to the chair. Later a perma- 

* Those interested in this discussion are referred To 
obituary of Dr. Cornett, Ind. Med. Jour., Vol. xv, p. 515. 
also, "The First President of the Indiana State Medical 
Society. — Letters from Dr. Cornett's son, from the late Dr. 
John S. Bobbs (Dec. 10. 1849). and from Dr. Wm. A. Mac- 
Coy, of Madison, Ind." — lb., Vol. xvi, p. 23. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 146 

nent organization was effected and Dr. Living- 
ston Dunlap was made permanent chairman. He 
delivered no address. At this meeting a commit- 
tee of one from each district represented was ap- 
pointed to nominate officers for the "society." 
Drs. Bullard, Kersey, Ryan, Florer and Mullen 
were appointed, who reported the following 
named gentlemen for the respective offices, to 
which the convention elected them : President, 
Dr. W. T. S. Cornett; Vice-Presidents, Drs. Asa- 
hel Clapp, Nathan Johnson, Livingston Dunlap 
and Uriah Farquhar; Secretary, Dr. John S. 
Bohbs ; Treasurer, Dr. John L. Mothershead. 

The society convened at Indianapolis on May 
15, 1850. Dr. Cornett presided and gave an ad- 
dress on the subject, "Rise, Progress, Present 
State and Future Prospects of Medical Science." 
It was delivered in the evening at "candle light." 

The following is a list of the names of physi- 
cians at the convention in 1849 : 

Dr. Alexander J. Mullen, of Napoleon. 

Dr. Nathan Johnson, of Cambridge City. 

Dr. Yierling Kersey, of Milton, Wayne 
County. 

Dr. Thomas W. Florer, of Alamo, Montgom- 
ery County. 

Dr. John Hunt, of Madison County. 

Dr. Townsend Ryan, of Anderson. 

Dr. R. J. Patterson, of Indianapolis. 

Dr. David Hutchinson, of Mooresville, Morgan 
County. 

Dr. Charles Wallace, of Belleville, Hendricks 
County. 

Dr. W. R. Smith, of Cumberland. 



146 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

Dr. II. V. X. Johnson, of Broad Eipple. 

Dr. John II . Sanders, of Indianapolis. 

Dr. W. C. Thompson, of Indianapolis. 

Dr. Livingston Dunlap, of Indianapolis. 

Dr. William H. Wishard, of Johnson County. 

Dr. John L. Mothershead, of Indianapolis. 

Dr. Alois D. Gall, of Indianapolis. 

Dr. C. S. Eamsey, of Indianapolis. 

Dr. George W. Mears, of Indianapolis. 

Dr. Eobert Curran, of Indianapolis. 

Dr. Talbott Bullard, of Indianapolis. 

Dr. John Nutt, of Marion County. 

Dr. Charles Parr}-, of Indianapolis. 

Dr. Andrew M. Hunt, of Indianapolis. 

Dr. John S. Bobbs, of Indianapolis. 

Dr. David Funkhouser, of Indianapolis. 

Dr. Patrick H. Jameson, of Indianapolis. 

Dr. John M. Gaston, of Indianapolis. 

On the second day, June 7, the committee on 
credentials reported favorably upon the following 
named persons, and they were admitted as mem- 
bers: 

Drs. Asahel Clapp, John Sloan, S. E. Leonard, 
P. S. Shields, William Cooper, William G. Sinex, 
William A. Clapp, William A. Scribner and H. 
M. Dowling, of New Albany ; Chester G. Ballard, 
of Waveland; Henkle and Farquhar, of Wabash; 
William F. Collum, of Jeff ersonville ; James S. 
Athon, of Charleston; James S. Harrison, of In- 
dianapolis; Thomas W. Fn^, James Tichnor, Jo- 
seph Allen and Oliver P. Mahan, of Crawfords- 
ville; George M. Huggins, of Darlington; Wil- 
liam J. Byers, of Frankfort; White, of Prairie- 
ville; John M. Boyd, of Thorntown; Samuel J. 
Weldon, of Covington; Hunt, of Laporte; Wil- 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 147 

liam T. S. Cornett, James K. Francis, Richard 
B. Conn and John Lewis, of Ripley County; 
Isaac Finley and Homer T. Hinman, of Colum- 
bus; Wiley, of Eichmond; Foster, James D. Max- 
well and Robert C. Hamil, of Bloomington; S. 
Judkins and J. A. Pegg, of New Garden, Wayne 
County ; Joseph H. D. Rogers, William Davidson. 
Holcomb, J. W. Mullen and B. F. Mullen, of 
Napoleon; Eldridge, Myron H. Harding, Taylor 
and Jonathan W. Gordon, of Dearborn County; 
Jeremiah H. Brower, of Lawrenceburg ; John W. 
Moodey, John L. Armington and George W. 
New, of Greensburg; T. W. Cowgill, Albert G. 
Preston and H. E. Talbott, of Greencastle; Jo- 
seph C. Ardery, of Decatur County; Jefferson 
Helm, of Rush County, and Willis W. Hitt, of 
Vincennes. 

The physicians named in the preceding para- 
graph came to the state convention on the second 
day and were received by credentials. Unfortu- 
nately, in the hurry and bustle of business, in 
almost every case the Christian name or initial 
was omitted. I have sent out numerous letters, 
besides a request in The Journal, for assistance 
in correcting the omissions. Inasmuch as they 
were present at the first meeting, I felt anxious 
to preserve their full names. I have succeeded in 
nearly all. I think some mistakes £iave occurred. 
Dr. T. C. Loukes, of Prairieton, has dili- 
gently sought for Dr. "White," accredited to 
Prairieville,* and is convinced that no phy- 
sician of that name resided there in 1849. 



* In the August number of The Journal of the Indiana 
State Medical Association, Dr. White was erroneously ac- 
credited to "Prairieton." instead of "Prairieville." The 
latter was in Clinton county, and was discontinued as a 
postoffice Aug. 9, 1856. 



14S MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

••Sloan" of Crawfordsville appears in the minutes 
erroneously for Dr. John Sloan of New Albany. 
] am of the opinion that there are other errors of 
location. The minutes show the names of eighty- 
four persons present at this convention. 

Sixty years have passed since that body of 
grand men met in Indianapolis and laid the 
foundation for our present efficient State Med- 
ical Association. Only two of that number are 
alive today, Dr. Patrick H. Jameson, born in 
Jefferson County, Indiana, April 18, 1824, and 
Dr. William H. Wishard, born in Nicholas Coun- 
ty, Kentucky, Jan. 17, 1816. Both are residents 
of Indianapolis. 

I am sure that the entire medical profession of 
Indiana will unite with me in paying this little 
tribute of respect to these honored men. 

At this preliminary meeting a number of prac- 
tical questions were discussed and acted upon. 
One was the expediency of establishing a medical 
journal, and Drs. George W. Mears, Vierling 
Kersey and Eobert Curran were appointed a 
committee to report some definite action. It was 
several years before a journal was created, but 
their action was helpful. 

Again, Dr. E. J. Patterson offered the follow- 
ing resolution, which was adopted: 

Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed to 
memorialize the Legislature of the state, upon the sub- 
ject of Homicidal Insanity — asking the enactment of a 
law requiring that in all cases where the plea of in- 
sanity is set up as an excuse for crime, the question of 
insanity shall be first and separately tried and decided 
by a commission of lunacy. 

Also, on motion of Dr. John H. Sanders, it 
was 



MEDICAL HISTORY Of INDIANA. 149 

Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed to 
memorialize the Legislature, asking them to provide 
by law for a registration of marriages, births and 
deaths. 

The good seed sown by those early pioneer 
physicians has borne fruit, and they deserve 
praise for their forethought. 

The state society had not long been in existence 
until death entered. At the session of 1850 Dr. 
John H. Sanders, who had acted as temporary 
chairman at the first convention, had passed 
away (April 4, 1850), also Dr. T. W. Cowgill, 
and the following resolution was passed (Trans- 
actions 1850, page 7) : 

Resolved, That as a society we sincerely feel the loss 
we have sustained in the recent death of John H. San- 
ders, M.D., of Indianapolis, and T. W. Cowgill, M.D., 
of Greencastle. 

The society early recognized the necessity for 

a high standard of preparation for those desiring 

to enter the profession, as shown by resolution, 

1850, page 9 : 

Resolved, That this society recommend to the mem- 
bers of all local societies, and the profession through- 
out the state, that they do not receive students into 
their offices for a less term than three years, including 
the usual term of public pupilage, and that they re- 
quire a fee for office instruction, and the use of books, 
of not less than $100, and that preceptors should in- 
stitute frequent examination of their pupils. 

It was further resolved that a broad line of 
distinction between scientific medicine and the 
various forms of empiricism in vogue in our 
country should be plainly marked and seen. Phy- 
sicians were urged to exert their influence w 7 ith 
newspaper publishers and druggists to prevail 
upon them to withhold their aid to such impos- 



150 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

hive. And they had their troubles in the good 
old 1 1 ays ! 

The importance of keeping accurate notes of 
all important cases and epidemic diseases which 
might come under their observation was urged 
upon physicians. This was fifty-nine years ago, 
and is still applicable to all young physicians of 
the present day. By all means, young men, keep 
a case-book. The writer was impressed with this 
advice when, more than forty years ago, he heard 
the older Austin Flint make the assertion that 
his success in medicine had largely been due to 
the fact that throughout his life he had kept a 
case-book. 

The society also stood firmly for the code of 
ethics and all the principles that it inculcated. 

Another resolution introduced at this meeting 
(1850) is applicable at the present day (page 8) : 
Resolved, That it is expedient for the members of our 
profession to avail themselves of all suitable occasions 
to deliver popular lectures on the grand principles of 
physiology, on which the theory of practice in medicine 
is instituted, with the view of instructing the public 
mind and popularizing the regular system of medicine. 

Also at this meeting they grappled with prob- 
lems that, for the sake of science, we all regret 
they left undetermined : 

Resolved, That a committee be appointed by the 
president to collect, in a systematized form, facts on 
the duration of pregnancy and the causes which influ- 
ence sex. 

The eleventh annual session of the state so- 
ciety was held at Indianapolis, May 17 and 18, 
1860. On page 62 of that year's Transactions 
may be found a list of the members of the Indi- 
ana State Medical Society, with a statement that 
"This list includes the names of all who have 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 151 

been members of the society since its organiza- 
tions." This is not quite correct, for I have dis- 
covered more than a dozen names which have 
been doubtless accidentally omitted and have 
added them to the list. I have also corrected 
some typographical errors, and in a number of 
instances supplied the Christian name where I 
found only an initial letter. As the society was 
eleven years old at the time of the publication of 
this list, and there are about 329 names of phy- 
sicians who were then active in professional life 
and who now, after half a century has elapsed, 
deserve this slight recognition, I have decided to 
reproduce their names, 

Comparing the location year by year of these 
physicians, I was impressed with the large num- 
ber who had changed their residences in the 
short period of eleven years, showing a desire for 
better surroundings. Nearly all "have fallen 
asleep." Alas, how few would answer to their 
names at a roll-call today! I think the living 
could be numbered upon the fingers of two, if not 
one, hand. 

"And the names we loved to hear 
Have been carved for many a year 
on the tomb." 

Albertson, Edmund Canton 

Allen, Joseph , Crawfordsville 

Angell, Charles Pittsburg 

Ardery, Joseph C. (Decatur Co.) Milford 

Armington, John L Greensburg 

Athon, James F Charleston 

Austin, Thomas K New Albany 

Ayres, Henry P Fort Wayne 

Ballard, Chester G Waveland 

Barritt, J. J Greenville 



152 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

Bartholomew, B Danville 

Beck, E. W. H Delphi 

Beck, G. G Delphi 

Beck. John C Cadiz 

Belles, J. T Indianapolis 

Bennett. J. W Plymouth 

Blunt, M. S Mt. Vernon 

Bobbs, John S Indianapolis 

Bowman, Charles New Albany 

Boyd, John M Thorntowri 

Boynton, A. G Elizabethtown 

Boynton, C. L Elizabethtown 

Bray, Ebenezer Evansville 

Bray, Madison J Evansville 

Brown, Clay Indianapolis 

Brown, R. T Crawfordsville 

Brown, Samuel M New Bethel 

Brower, J. H Lawrenceburg 

Buck, Dayton 

Buck, R. H Clarksburg 

Bush, O Dayton 

Bullard, Talbott Indianapolis 

Bullard, W. R Indianapolis 

Burns, Jesse Evansville 

Butler, A. B Richmond 

Butterfield, S. H Brooklyn 

Byers, William J Frankfort 

Byf ord, W. H Evansville 

Carlstadt, F. A Evansville 

Casselberry, Isaac Evansville 

Carter, F. M Frankfort 

Catlin, H. W Georgetown 

Chapman, A Alquina 

Chestnut, Thomas Lafayette 

Chitwood, G. R Connersville 

Clark, O. L Lafayette 

Clapp, Asahel New Albany 

Clapp, W. A New Albany 

Coe, Henry Danville 

Coe. Z. B Kirklin 

Cogley, T. J Madison 



MEDICAL 11 J STORY OF INDIANA. 153 

Collier, A. G Columbus 

Coleman, Horace Logansport 

Collings, J. S Cicero 

Collins, Wm. F Cumberland 

Collum, William F Jeffersonville 

Comingor, J. A Danville 

Conn, Richard B Ripley County 

Conyngton, John Mt. Vernon 

Cooper, William New Albany 

Cornett, W. T. S Versailles 

Cowgill, T. W Greencastle 

Crippen, E. H Rushville 

Crouse, D. H Dayton 

Curran, Robert Jeffersonville 

Cyms, W. H Allisonville 

Darrach, G. M Indianapolis 

Davidson, B. K Evansville 

Davidson, William Madison 

Day, S. D Shelbyville 

Davis, J. B Indianapolis 

Davis, W. H Illinois 

Davis, S Columbus 

DeBruler, James P Rockport 

Deming, Elizur H Lafayette 

Dillon, A. C Rushville 

Dicken, James L Somerset 

Doneghy, John T Indianapolis 

Dorsey, N. J Indianapolis 

Dowling, H. M New Albany 

Dryden, T. F North Field 

Dunlap. Livingston Indianapolis 

Dunn, J Lawrenceburg 

Dunnell, D Yountsville 

Edgerle, G. W\, Jr Muncie 

Elder, Samuel F Mt. Auburn 

Elder, B. F Knightstown 

Eldridge Dearborn County 

Ellis, C. R Hardinsburg 

Ellis, E. W. H Indianapolis 

Ellis, John Hardinsburg 

Ellis, Joseph Bradford 



154 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

Elliott. Cyrenus .Milltown 

Elliott, James H Brookville 

Elliott, Thomas B Indianapolis 

Elliott, W. M Evansville 

Everts. C. C Union Mills 

Farquhar, Uriah Logansport 

Farrell, A Mt. Vernon 

Field, Nathaniel Jeffersonville 

Finley. Isaac Columbia 

Fishback, Charles Shelbyville 

Fisher, Samuel Newcastle 

Florer, Thomas W Alamo 

Ford, James Wabash 

Foster, W. C Mt. Pleasant 

Foster, C. A Evansville 

Francis, James K Fipley County 

Freeman, S. A Fort Wayne 

French, William H Mt. Vernon 

Fry. Thomas W Crawfordsville 

Funkhouser, David Indianapolis 

Gall, A. D Indianapolis 

Gaston, John M Indianapolis 

Gerard, Jerome B Hartford 

Girdner, J. G Greenville 

Gordon, Jonathan W Indianapolis 

Graff, George B Princeton 

Graham, J. N .Chicago, 111. 

Graydon, R. G Greenwood 

Gramm, William Evansville 

Green, J. N Shelbyville 

Green, W. F Shelbyville 

Grimes, Samuel Delphi 

Haines, A. B . Aurora 

Hall, D. D Connersville 

Hamil, Robert C Bloomington 

Harding, M. H Lawrenceburg 

Harrington, S. H Richmond 

Harvey, Thomas B Pla infield 

Harrison, James S Indianapolis 

Harvev, William F Plainfield 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 155 

Hatchitt, James G Evansville 

Haughton, R. E Richmond 

Heald, J. E West Point 

Heavenridge, A Stilesville 

Helm, Jefferson Rushville 

Henderson, H. D Salem 

Henkle Wabash 

Hervey, J. W Germantown 

Hibberd, J. F ■;.:... .Richmond 

Hickox, H. C Aurora 

Hillis. D. B Brownstown 

Hinman, H. T Columbus 

Hitt, Willis W Vincennes 

Hoel, John B North Hogan 

Holcomb Madison 

Howard, N. P Greenfield 

Huggins, George M Darlington 

Hunt, John Madison County 

Humphreys, Louis South Bend 

Hunt, Andrew M .Indianapolis 

Hurd, A Oxford 

Hutchinson, David . . Mooresville 

Ireland, J. M Francisco 

Irwin, John S Madison 

Isler, J Lafayette 

Jameson, Patrick H Indianapolis 

Jennings, D Lafayette 

Jessup, D. H Rising Sun 

Jessup, R. R Rising Sun 

Jewett, Luther Lafayette 

Johnson, E. K Eagle Village 

Johnson, H. V. V Broad Ripple 

Johnson, Joseph Bakers' Corners 

Johnson, Nathan Cambridge City 

Johnson, P. Roosevelt Lafayette 

Jones, David M ._. Corydon 

Judkins, S New Garden 

Kennedy, Levi H Belleville 

Kennedy, S. A Fairland 

Kersey, Vierling Milton 



156 MEDICAL HISTORY OF I \ DI AX A. 

Knopfler, Nathan Indianapolis 

Kitchen, J. M Indianapolis 

Kivett, John Evansville 

Latta, M. M Goshen 

Leonard, S. E New Albany 

Lewis, John Ogden 

Leslie, Alexander Petersburg 

Link, Harvey New Albany 

Linton, S. M Columbus 

Lloyd, Frederick New Albany 

Lindsley, John Evansville 

Lomax, William Marion 

Low. Nathan M Elizabeth 

Lynch, M. J Indianapolis 

Maclean, George M New Albany 

Ma.ha.Ti , Oliver P Crawfordsville 

Martin, M. L Middle Fork 

Mau^y, R. D Rushville 

Maxwell, James D Bloomington 

Mayo, William W *. Lafayette 

McClelland, J. S Jefferson 

McClenahan, Thomas J Anderson 

McDonald, D. H Indianapolis 

McFadden, W. G London 

MeFall, D. M Cumberland 

McFarland, J. B Lafayette 

McGaughey, Jonn W Morristown 

McMechan, J. G Crawfordsville 

Mears, George W Indianapolis 

Meeker, Daniel LaPorte 

Mendenhall, N Plainfield 

Mendenhall, J Ashland 

Metz, J. J Ossian 

Mitchell, G. B Martinsville 

Moffett, John Rushville 

Moodey, John W Greensburg 

Moore, R. C Belleville 

Morgan, Daniel Evansville 

Morris, J. M Sulphur Hill 

Mothershead, John L Indianapolis 



UED1CAL HISTORY <>l tNDlANA. 157 

Mothershead, P. M Indianapolis 

Mulhausen, H Evansville 

Mulhausen, M Evansville 

Mullen, Alexander J Napoleon 

Mullen, B. F Napoleon 

Mullen, J. \Y Madison 

Murphy, Edward New Harmony 

Negley, D. N Evansville 

Nesbitt, Joseph A Allisonville 

New, George W Greensburgh 

Newcomer, Frisby S Indianapolis 

Newland, Benjamin Bedford 

Newland, Elijah R New Albany 

Nutt, John Indianapolis 

O'Ferrall, R. M Lafayette 

O'Neal, L Somerset 

Olcott, W. A. . Manchester 

Parker, G. B Indianapolis 

Parry, Charles Indianapolis 

Parvin, Theophilus Indianapolis 

Patterson, R. J Indianapolis 

Pegg, J. A New Garden 

Pennington, Joel Milton 

Personett, L. D Greens Forks 

Pleasants, John H Indianapolis 

Pressley, William H Augusta 

Preston, Albert G Greencastle 

Rea, John New Castle 

Reader, William Corydon 

Ramsey, C. S Indianapolis 

Reagan, Jesse Spring Valley 

Reagan, A. W Mooresville 

Record, Samuel Lanesville 

Reed, Thomas M Indianapolis 

Reid, Samuel Salem 

Ritter, Levi Plainfield 

Robbins, Clark Monrovia 



158 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

Robinson, William E Louisville 

Roe, John S North Madison 

Rogers, Joseph H. D Madison 

Rosenthal. J Fort Wayne 

Ronalds, Hugh Evansville 

Rooker, James I Castleton 

Rowan, B. C Fort Wayne 

Rowland, Willard Oswego 

Rueker, T. H New Albany 

Runcie, E. T Millersburg 

Ryan, Townsend Anderson 

Rynerson, J. N Mt. Meridian 

Sanders, John H Indianapolis 

Sehonover. William S Hardinsburg 

Scribner, Wm. A New Albany 

Sexton, Marshall Rushville 

Sheppard, M Columbus 

Sherrod, R. W Millport 

Shields, P. S New Albany 

Sinex. William G .New Albany 

Skinner, John A Vincennes 

Sloan, John New Albany 

Smelsor, J. W Manwaring 

Smith, Hubbard M Vincennes 

Smith, Isaac Lafayette 

Smith, W. R Cumberland 

Somes, Joseph Vincennes 

Spencer, R Monticello 

Spencer, W Monticello 

Spottswood, E. X Perrysville 

Stacy, George W Warsaw 

Stevens, Thaddeus M Indianapolis 

Stout, Oliver H Indianapolis 

Sutton, George Aurora 

Talbot, H. E Greencastle 

Tate, William Lawrenceburg 

Taylor, T. W Battle Ground 

Thomas, M. W Franklin 

Thompson, W. Clinton Indianapolis 

Thompson, W. E New London 

Tichnor. James Crawfordsville 



MEDICAL HI8T0RY OF INDIANA. 159 

Todd, Henry G Indianapolis 

Todd, L. L., Jr Southport 

Todd, R. N Southport 

Town, R. R New Albany 

Tyler, W. W Roanoke 

Vail, Joel Richmond 

Vanderbark, Peter Knight stown 

Vickery, A. M Tipton 

Wallace, A. G Indianapolis 

Wallace, Charles Belleville 

Walker, G. B Evansville 

Walker, John T Evansville 

Walker, Oscar C Blairsville 

Weist, J. R New Westville, O. 

Welborn, J. C Bloomington 

Weldon, Samuel J Covington 

Wellman, Richard M Jasper 

Wetherill, C. M Lafayette 

West, Calvin Hagerstown 

Wilcox, J. R Evansville 

Willard, R Warsaw 

Wilson, James B Salem 

Wilson, John R Evansville 

Wilson James W Rossville 

Wilstach, C. F Lafayette 

Winton, Horace. Xorth Manchester 

Winton, Robert Muncie 

Winton, William R Wabash 

Wishard, William H Greenwood 

Wolf, J. G Morristown 

Woodburn, J. H Indianapolis 

Woodworth, B. S Fort Wayne 

Wort, Samuel Brownstown 

Wright, John F Columbus 

Wright, J. Joel Monrovia 

Wright, H. Mansur Indianapolis 

Wyley, D Jeffersonville 

Yeakle, D. T Lafavette 



CHAPTEE XVII. 



Epidemics. — Legal Enactments. — Eecent 
Legislation. — Law of 1897. — Law of 
1909. — The State Board of Health. — 
Sessions of the State Medical Society 
and Association. — Changes in the State 
Society. — List of Presidents of the 
Indiana State Medical Society. 

During the early forties an epidemic of ery- 
sipelas prevailed in a number of counties in In- 
diana, notably in Dearborn, Eipley and Decatur 
counties, and was known by the popular name of 
"black tongue." 

In the Western Lancet, November, 1843, Dr. 
George Sutton of Aurora contributed an article 
entitled, "Eemarks on an Epidemic Erysipelas, 
Known, by the Popular Name of 'Black Tongue/ 
Which Prevailed in Eipley and Dearborn Coun- 
ties, Indiana." This article, like everything else 
that Dr. Sutton wrote, is valuable. The entire 
article was of so much merit that it was repro- 
duced in the English work of "Nunneley on Ery- 
sipelas." I have the American edition of this 
work before me (Barrington and Haswell, 1844). 
and the article begins at page 85. An extract 
from Dr. Sutton's paper will illustrate the char- 
acter of the disease : 

"The following is a synopsis of the symptoms 
of this epidemic. When the throat was the part 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA, 1C1 

attacked, after the usual premonitory symptoms 
which have been frequently mentioned had con- 
tinued for two or three days, the patient was 
generally seized with a chill, which lasted in 
many cases four or five hours. This was fol- 
lowed by a high fever, swelling of the tonsils, 
submaxillary, parotid, and lymphatic glands of 
the neck; neuralgic pains, darting over the side 
of the neck and head, frequently following the 
temporal artery; tongue, covered at first with a 
thick brown coat, soon became swollen and often 
very dark in the center; deglutition frequently 
very difficult; pulse generally full, though easily 
compressed; skin at first hot and dry, becoming 
moist and continuing so after venesection. In 
the mild form of the disease these symptoms were 
frequently removed at once by an active antiphlo- 
gistic course of treatment. Sometimes the mild 
form had only the appearance of cynanche ton- 
sillaris, but in the more malignant form, where 
the throat was affected, after the above symp- 
toms had continued for two or three days, and 
sometimes from the very commencement, the 
pharynx became of a dark purple color. This 
color generally spread over the palate, tongue, 
and sides of the cheeks, the tongue becoming 
very much swollen, assuming a blackish-brown 
color; deglutition in many cases was almost im- 
possible. In most of these cases an erysipelas 
would commence at the angle of the mouth or 
nose and spread over the face and head, with all 
the symptoms peculiar to that disease. The in- 
flammation of the throat was seldom stationary ; 
sometimes passing down the trachea, with symp- 



162 MEDICAL HISTORY OF JXDJ.W I. 

toms resembling laryngitis, or cynanche trachea- 
lis, and at last assuming the symptoms of pneu- 
monia. Sometimes this inflammation passed into 
the nostrils, and from them into the frontal 
sinuses; sometimes apparently into the antrum 
maxillary, but in nearly every case that I saw 
the throat became well while the erysipelas was 
spreading over the skin. v 

In the State Transactions for 1852, page 33. 
may be found a "Keport of the Committee on the 
Practice of Medicine/ 7 in which Drs. M. H. 
Harding of Lawrencebnrg, Ezra Read of Terre 
Haute, and John W. Moodey of Greensburg dis- 
cuss epidemics of scarlatina prevailing in 1837-8 
and 1846-7. Also epidemics of dysentery, which 
prevailed at intervals from 1849 to 1852, and 
which was especially fatal in 1851 and 1852. Dr. 
Moodey, who was my preceptor, told me that his 
experience in these epidemics of dysentery was 
so distressing that he would often come home 
in the evening discouraged, after having visited 
from home to home, throw his saddle-bags upon 
the floor, and declare in his despair that he 
would see no more patients, but on the morrow 
the demand of the sick and call to duty was so 
pressing that he again rallied and went on his 
sorrowful rounds. I was a boy of eleven years 
in 1851, but remember distinctly of an older 
sister, living in Eush County, who lost three 
children in one week from dysentery. 

At the session of the state society in 1852 a 
committee was appointed to ascertain in what 
counties and townships the "milk sickness" pre- 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 163 

vails, and whether this disease disappears upon 
the removal of the forests and cultivation of the 
land ; whether it prevails to the same extent upon 
the highlands that it does upon the alluvial bot- 
toms, and any other facts relating to this disease. 
The query arose as to whether intermittent, re- 
mittent, congestive, and continued fevers were 
on the increase or decrease.* 

Cholera prevailed to quite an extent, especially 
along the navigable water courses of Indiana, 
in 1849 to 1852. 

The reader is referred to an exhaustive paper 
by Dr. George Sutton, "A Eeport to the Indiana 
State Medical Society on Asiatic Cholera as it 
Prevailed in this State in 1849-50-51-52." State 
Transactions, 1853, page 109. 

Those days of epidemics antedated by many 
years the discovery of the germ theory of dis- 
ease, but the physic' ns of that period were men 
of sound judgment and practical sense and man- 
aged their cases discreetly 

The Transactions for 1852, page 7, record a 
series of resolutions upon the death of Dr. Henry 
M. Dowling of New Albany. Nothing is said 
concerning the date of his birth, nor exact date 
of his death. He was present at the formation 
of the state society, and as such deserves this 
trifling recognition. 

The Transactions for 1864, page 9, records 
the following resolution: 

That this Society regard with profound regret and 
sorrow the decease of our lamented confreres. Drs. 



* See report of Dr. ,T. S. McClelland, Jefferson. Clinton 
County, State Transactions 1854, p. 43. No positive con- 
clusions were reached, but the information is valuable. — 
G. W. H. K. 



K54 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

[Calvin] West, [Tnlbott] Bullard, Elliott, and Wil- 
son; that we will cherish their memories in grateful 
remembrance, and emulate their virtues. 

The Christian name of each one is omitted. 
and I am only able to determine definitely those 
of West and Bullard. 

They were affected by fads in the early days 
of our state society, much as we are at the pres- 
ent time. In 1856 Dr. David Hutchinson was 
appointed to report on blood-letting in epilepsy, 
and in the Transactions for 1857, page 8, he 
says : 

"Having examined the literature of the sub- 
ject, I find that none of our recent authorities 
have any confidence in blood-letting as a remedy 
in epilepsy, but, on the contrary, an opposite 
mode of treatment is advised, the disease being 
one of debility instead of plethora." Upon this 
statement the committee was discharged. 

One resolution desired a committee to report 
a universal fee-bill for the entire state ! I find 
no record of a report. 

The slaughter of the innocents was prevalent 
in the sixties and was condemned by resolutions 
denouncing criminal abortion at the meeting in 
1860. 

The advantages of vaccination were emphat- 
ically urged by resolutions in 1860. 

White lead as a remedy for superficial burns 
came into favor in the early sixties, being espe- 
cially recommended by the late Prof. S. D. 
Gross. It was discussed and a committee was 
appointed to investigate its claims. Whether the 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA, 165 

remedy lost out or the committee grew careless 
I can not say ; but they made no report. 

A committee was appointed to investigate "the 
evil effects of tobacco." The committee, long 
since dead, made no report. 

A word of praise is due the late Dr. Calvin 
"West of Hagerstown, who, in the early sixties, 
became an enthusiast ever the microscope and 
made a number of valuable annual reports upon 
his investigations in the Transactions. 

LEGAL ENACTMENTS. 

At every session of the society charlatanism 
was deplored, and the Legislature was urged to 
enact such laws as might be requisite for the 
protection of the state from incompetent and 
reckless practitioners of medicine and surgery,, 
as well as those who dispensed drugs. Such re- 
quests were not unreasonable. 

Quackery has always annoyed the profession of 
our state. As an unbidden guest, it has stalked 
in our presence, and, like the poor, will, pos- 
sibly, never cease out of the land. In the early 
history of our state there were stringent laws 
upon our statute books regulating the practice 
of medicine. Possibly they were too drastic for 
those primitive days. Physicians of high grade 
could not always be secured, nor properly com- 
pensated for their services, and so men of the 
"Doc Sifers" stamp and unskilled midwives were 
suffered, through sympathy, to attend our early 
inhabitants. Nevertheless, politicians have, as a 
rule, been the friends of quackery and the scorn- 
crs of legitimate medicine. 



166 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

At the session of the state society held at New 
Albany. May 19, 1852, a memorial from the 
Evansville Medical Society was presented, and, 
as it is a fair exponent of the early medical leg- 
islation, I shall copy the relevant portion: 

Transactions 1852, page 6: "The Evansville 
Medical Society having had their attention called 
to the existence of a large body of irregular 
physicians, whose ignorance and incapacity exert 
a manifest injury, both upon the community 
among whom they practice and the profession 
whose calling they degrade, and, being anxious,, 
so far as lay in their power, to redress this griev- 
ance, appointed a committee to report upon the 
laws of the state of Indiana, formerly bearing 
upon this subject. 

"The committee reported that several laws 
upon this subject were passed in the years 1816. 
1825, and 1830, entitled acts for the better regu- 
lation of the practice of medicine in the state 
of Indiana. 

"The first of these acts, passed in the session 
of 1816, had for its object the organization of 
the profession into boards of supervision cor- 
responding with the judicial districts of the 
state. Provision was made for their perpetua- 
tion. Authority was conferred upon them to ex- 
amine and license to practice any applicant whom 
they might consider properly qualified. It af- 
fixed a rate or scale of charges for medical serv- 
ices. And, lastly, declared that any person prac- 
ticing medicine in the state, unless properly au- 
thorized so to do, either bv the license of the 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 1G7 

examining board or otherwise, should not have 
the assistance of the law in collecting a remunera- 
tion for his services. 

"The act of 1825 had for its object the better 
organization of the medical profession. It 
granted charters to a central state society and 
to local societies, corresponding to the judicial 
districts ;* enforced the regulations already made, 
and provided for the continuation of the soci- 
eties by fixed rules of representation. 

"The act of 1830 provided for the remedying 
of certain defects in the old law and for en- 
forcing its regulations by denying the aid of the 
law to collect the bills of irregular practitioners. 

"Since 1830 these laws have all been repealed 
and none others enacted in their places." 

The repeal of these medical laws left our state 
at the mercy of any one who chose to assume 
the name of "doctor" for the next fifty-five years. 

RECENT LEGISLATION, f 

The first legal attempt in recent years in any 
manner to regulate the practice of medicine, sur- 
gery and obstetrics in the state of Indiana was 
made during the session of the State Legislature 
of 1885. 



* In the early days of Indiana, physicians were licensed 
to practice medicine by certificates granted by .judicial or 
medical districts. Dr. John W. Cook of Pendleton, has 
kindly permitted me to copy one of these papers issued to 
his father, the late Dr. Ward Cook of Pendleton, in 1832. 
It is printed on a good quality of parchment ; the seal, 
stamped on paper, showing an open lancet, is obscure. Dr. 
Dickinson Burt, who signs this certificate as secretary, 
was the first physician to locate in Delaware County. 
These certificates are mentioned elsewhere. 

t The author desires to acknowledge valuable assistance 
rendered by Dr. George R. Green of Muncie, in this resume 
of recent State laws. 



\ Hit- President and Censors of the Society far the Thirteenth Medical District, 
To whom tkest Prescntsmag came, €hreting: 

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U of MrJ)Il 'INF, M IMJFRY "»* OBSTETRK KS. according to the 
^ "Rule* ana" Regulations or said Society, hath been approved, and MjM- 

i CJJ»1"SJS to Practice .Wcdicinc, Surgery and Obstclrick*, is hereby 
\ granted him. II V moreover recommend him to the notice ot the lac- 
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MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 109 

This act specified three classes of practitioners 
who should be permitted to practice under the 
protection of the law. It provided a system of 
registration in the counties wherein the appli- 
cant proposed to practice, and the conditions 
under which certificates were issued by the clerk 
of the court were as follows : 

1. Graduates of reputable medical colleges pre- 
senting a diploma as proof of such graduation, 
supported by the testimony of two witnesses as 
to the moral character of the applicant. 

2. Attendance upon one term of medical lec- 
tures and three years of practice immediately 
preceding the passage of this act, in the county 
where application was made, together with proof 
of good moral character, entitled the applicant 
to continue practice. 

3. Any physician who had been engaged in 
practice in the state for ten years immediately 
preceding the passage of this act, upon proof of 
this fact, and also good moral character, was 
likewise permitted to continue in practice. This 
law practically disturbed no resident practitioner 
at the time of its passage in the state. 

Another provision stipulated that after a speci- 
fied date only those who were graduates of rep- 
utable medical colleges should be permitted to 
begin practicing within the borders of the state. 

This law was not perfect, but it marked the 
beginning of a return to the old laws of real 
worth which had been enacted and repealed early 
in the history of the state It was imperfect in 
that it left the moral standing of the applicant, 
and the reputability of the college, to the judg- 



170 MEDICAL H/sToin OF INDIANA. 

ment of the clerk of the court, from which there 
was no appeal. There was no regular standard 
by which to measure the requirements, and the 
decisions were characterized by a remarkable de- 
cree of elasticity. 

law of 1897. 

The act of 1897, while replacing the act of 
1885, provides that all physicians who had reg- 
istered under the act of 1885 and have been in 
continuous practice in the state since that date 
shall be permitted to register under the new law. 

This law also created the Board of Medical 
Eegistration and Examination, to which all ap- 
plications for registration must be made, and 
whose duty it is to issue permits in the way of 
certificates setting forth that applicants have 
complied with the provisions of the law. On the 
presentation of these certificates to the clerk 
of the court in the county in which the appli- 
cant lives and proposes to practice, and the pay- 
ment of a proper fee, a license is issued by the 
clerk. In case of removal from one county to 
another the license in the first county is to be 
deposited in the new county as evidence and a 
new license issued in lieu of it at the last resi- 
dence. 

Under this law (1897) the applicant must 
be a graduate of a reputable medical college, and 
the standard of the colleges is determined by the 
Board of Medical Eegistration and Examination. 
This board also has power to determine the pre- 
liminary educational requirements of applicants. 
After February, 1903, the board requires an en- 
trance qualification, the minimum requirement 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 171 

being a high school diploma or equivalent docu- 
mentary evidence of education. If the applicant 
can not furnish such diploma as documentary 
evidence then the board gives an examination. 

Prior to January, 1903, the entrance require- 
ments were the same as those prescribed by the 
Association of American Medical Colleges. 

In 1905 the law was amended so as to add an 
osteopath to the Board of Medical Registration 
and Examination. 

Under certain regulations, reciprocal agree- 
ments exist between certain states. 

This law is handicapped in view of the fact 
that the state leaves the entire financial care of 
the board, together with its expenses, including 
expenses incurred in punishing violations, to the 
board itself, and there is no provision for its 
financial maintenance except that which the 
board is able to secure in fees from those who 
come before it for examination. No other body 
of men in the state is required to finance the 
enforcement of a state law, except physicians, 
and thev are the onlv body of men willing to 
do it ! 

LAW OF 1909. 

The Legislature of 1909 enacted a law regu- 
lating maternity hospitals, boarding houses for 
infants, and boarding homes for children, and 
the placing of infants. It provides for licenses 
by the board of state charities, fixes liability for 
the care of infants, prohibits the sending of 
pregnant women to other counties where their 
children become public dependents, etc. This bill 
is beneficent, as it will prevent the heretofore 



17-2 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

nefarious baby-farms which have in many in- 
stances flourished as adjuncts to the many illicit 
so-called maternity hospitals. 

THE STATE HOARD OF HEALTH. 

In 1891 the general law creating the State 
Board of Health was enacted. 

In 1901 the regulation of the discharge of 
factory refuse into the streams in the state was 
made a part of the duty of the hoard. 

In 1903 further legislation was enacted re- 
quiring physicians or householders to report all 
cases of suspected contagious diseases to the 
Board of Health. It also provided for the estab- 
lishment of quarantine, and detailed penalties for 
violations. 

In 1905 a bill was enacted providing for the 
establishment of a Laboratory of Hygiene and 
defining its duties. 

In 1907 further legislation was enacted on the 
subjects of marriages, births, deaths, diseases and 
burial permits, and prescribed penalties for vio- 
lations. Also in this year the pure food and 
drug bill was placed upon the statute books. 
making the chemist of the State Board of Health 
a food and drug commissioner, and defining his 
duties, and placing the legal enforcement of this 
law under the supervision of the State Board of 
Health.' Here, again, lack of funds have hin- 
dered the efficiency of the law. 

In March, 1909, the Legislature passed an 
amendment to the former laws regulating the 
Board of Health. The duties of the^State Board 
of Health are denned and increased. The name 
of the countv health officer is changed to Countv 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 173 

Health Commissioner. He is to be elected on 
the first Tuesday in January, 1910, and every 
four years thereafter. "In every incorporated 
city there shall be a department of health com- 
posed of a board of three commissioners, not 
more than two of whom shall be of the same po- 
litical party, and at least two of whom shall be 
physicians well informed in hygiene and sanitary 
science, and who shall be appointed by the mayor 
of such incorporated city for the term of four 
years, and who shall be known as the Citv Board 
of Health." 

SESSION'S OF THE INDIANA STATE MEDICAL 
SOCIETY AND ASSOCIATION. 

After the formation of the society it was mi- 
gratory for a time, then was stationary- at Indian- 
apolis for a number of years, and again became 
migratory. 

The places of meeting were: 1849 to 1851, 
1855 to 1864, 1866 to 1895, 1899, 1904, 1907 and 
1911, at Indianapolis; 1852, New Albany; 1853 
and 1898, Lafayette; 1854 and 1902, Evansville; 
1865 and 1903, Eichmond ; 1900, Anderson: 
1901, South Bend; 1896 and 1910, Fort Wayne: 
1897 and 1909, Terre Haute; 1905, West Baden; 
1906, Winona Lake, and 1908, French Lick. 
Total : Forty-six times at Indianapolis and six- 
teen times at other cities. 

The meetings were held either in May or June, 
except in 1862, when the Civil War interrupted, 
but a call session occurred the same year, Novem- 
ber 18 and 19. At the session held at French 
Lick in 1908 it was voted that hereafter meet- 
ings shall he held in the autumn. 



174 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIA \ .1. 

CHANGES IN THE STATE SOCIETY. 

At the session of the society held at Evaiis- 
ville (1902), were elected for the first time, mem- 
bers of the House of Delegates of the American 
Medical Association, as follows: For the long 
term. Drs. G. W. H. Kemper and Edwin Walker ; 
for the short term, Drs. W. X. Wishard and D. 
C. Peyton. 

At the next session of the society T ; held at 
Eichmond (1903), the Indiana members of the 
House of Delegates submitted a written report 
(see Transactions, 1903, p. 392) to the society, 
recommending that the present state society adopt 
the new constitution as planned by the American 
Medical Association for the government of state 
associations. The national association at New 
•Orleans (1903) had made the change, and sub- 
stituted for the time honored "Code of Ethics" 
the new form of government, to be based on the 
"Principles of Medical Ethics of the American 
Medical Association." On motion the new con- 
stitution and by-laws were adopted. It was not 
to go into effect until the hour of adjournment 
of the annual meeting, except that the president 
was to appoint the councilors provided for. 

Prior to this time the business of the society 
was conducted in general session. Thenceforth 
the general sessions were to be confined to the 
reading and discussion of papers, while all busi- 
ness was to be transacted by the House of Dele- 
gates. 

With the session of 1904 the society was under 
the new form of government and the name of 
"society" was changed to "association." 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 175 

The proceedings of each session were published 
in an annual volume until and including 1907 — 
making fifty-eight in all — when the plan was dis- 
continued. At the 1907 meeting Dr. G. F. 
Keiper made a motion, which was adopted, "That 
the council shall take such steps as they may 
deem wise toward the creation of a monthly med- 
ical journal as the organ of this state society, to 
take the place of the present Transactions; that 
this be the recommendation of the House of Del- 
egates to the council, to report next year." 

In accordance with this resolution the first 
number of The Journal of the Indiana State 
Medical Association, as a monthly journal, was 
issued in January, 1908, at Fort Wayne, Ind. 
Dr. Albert E. Bulson, Jr., was made editor and 
manager. 



CHAPTER XVIII 

Presidents of The Ixdiaxa State Medical 
Society axd Association. 

Xames and Residence. Elected. Served. 

MEDICAL coxvextiox. 

"Livingston Dunlap, Indianapolis 1841) 1849 

MEDICAL SOCIETY. 

" : 'William T. S. Cornett, Versailles 1849 1850 

•Asahel Clapp, New Albany 1850 1851 

"George W. Mears, Indianapolis 1851 1852 

""'Jeremiah H. Brower, Lawrenceburg . . .1852 1853 

"Elizur H. Deming, Lafayette 1853 1854 

"Madison J. Bray, Evansville 1854 1855 

"""William Lomax. Marion 1855 1856 

"Daniel Meeker, Laporte 1856 1857 

"Talbott Bullard, Indianapolis 1857 1858 

"Nathan Johnson, Cambridge City.... 1858 1859 

"David Hutchinson, Mooresville 1859 1860 

"Benjamin S. Woodworth, Eort Wayne . . 1860 1 861 

"Theophilus Parvin, Indianapolis 1861 1862 

"James E. Hibberd, Richmond 1862 1863 

"John Sloan, New Albany 1863 1864 

"John Moffett (acting) . Rushville 1864 1864 

"Samuel M. Linton, Columbus 1864 1864 

"Myron H. Harding, Lawrenceburg. . . . 1865 1865 

"Wilson Lockhart (acting). Danville. . 1865 1866 

*Yierling Kersey. Richmond 1866 1867 

*John S. Bobbs. Indianapolis 1867 1868 

"Nathaniel Field. Jefferson ville 1868 1869 

"George Sutton. Aurora 1869 1870 

"Robert N. Todd. Indianapolis 1870 1871 

"Henry P. Ayres, Fort Wayne 1871 1872 



UEDICAL EISTORY OF WDIANA. 177 

*Joel Pennington, Milton 1872 L873 

"Isaac Casselberry, Evaneville 1873 1874 

Wilson Hobbs, Knigbtstown 187,3 1874 

*Richard E. Haughton, Richmond 1874 1875 

"John H. Helm, Peru 187.") 187(5 

"Samuel S. Boyd, Dublin 1870 1877 

Luther D. Waterman, Indianapolis. ... 1877 1878 

"Louis Humphreys, South Bend 1878 ... $ 

"Benjamin Newlarid (acting), Bedford 

(V.-P.) 1878 1879 

"Jacob R. Weist, Richmond 1879 1880 

"Thomas B. Harvey, Indianapolis. .... 1880 1881 

"Marshall Sexton, Rushville 1881 1882 

William H. Bell, Logansport 1882 1883 

"Samuel E. Munford, Princeton 1883 1884 

"James H. Woodburn, Indianapolis. ... 1884 1885 

"James S. Gregg, Fort Wayne 1885 1886 

General W. H. Kemper, Muncie 1880 1887 

*Samuel H. Charlton, Seymour 1887 1888 

William H. Wishard, Indianapolis 1888 1889 

"James D. Gatch, Lawrenceburg 1889 1890 

"Gonsolvo C. Smythe, Greencastle 1890 1891 

Edwin Walker, Evansville 1891 1892 

George F. Beasley, Lafayette 1892 1893 

Charles A. Daugherty, South Bend 1893 1894 

"Elijah S. Elder, Indianapolis 1894 1894 

Charles S. Bond (acting) , Richmond. .. 1894 1895 

Miles F. Porter, Fort Wayne 1895 1896 

James H. Ford, Wabash 1896 1897 

William N. Wishard, Indianapolis 1897 1898 

John C. Sexton, Rushville 1898 1899 

Walker Schell, Terre Haute 1899 1900 

George W. McCaskey, Fort Wayne 1900 1901 

Alembert W. Brayton, Indianapolis. ... 1901 1902 

John B. Berteling, South Bend 1902 1903 

MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 

Jonas Stewart, Anderson 1903 1904 

George T. MacCoy, Columbus 1904 1905 

"George H. Grant, Richmond 1905 1906 

George J. Cook, Indianapolis 1906 1907 



ITS MEDICAL HISTORY OF IND1 INA. 

David C. Peyton, Jeffersonville 1907 1908 

George D. Kahlo, French Lick 1908 1909 

Thomas C, Kennedy, Shelbyville 1909 1910 

Frederic C. Heath. Indianapolis 1010 1911 



PRESIDENTS OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
(From Indiana) . 

*Theophilus Parvin 1879 

* James F. Hibberd 1894 

"Dead. ^Resigned. 

VICE-PRESIDENTS OF THE INDIANA STATE MEDICAL 

ASSOCIATION 

PREPARED BY G. W. II. KEMPER, M.D., MUNCIE 

MEDICAL CONVENTION 

Elected Served 

:: Nathan Johnson, Cambridge City 1849 1849 

"Townsend Ryan, Anderson 1849 1849 

"Thomas W. Florer, Alamo 1849 1849 

-Charles Wallace, Belleville 1849 1849 

MEDICAL SOCIETY 

*Asahel Clapp, New Albany 1849 1850 

"Nathan Johnson, Cambridge City 1849 1850 

"Livingston Dunlap, Indianapolis 1849 1850 

"Uriah Farquhar, Logansport 1849 1850 

"William Lomax, Marion 1850 1851 

"Robert Curran, Indianapolis 1850 1851 

"William Davidson, Madison 1850 1851 

*Willis W. Hitt, Vincennes 1850 1851 

*Henry M. Dowling, New Albany 1851 1852 

"Samuel Grimes, Delphi * 1851 1852 

•■Joel Pennington, Milton 1851 1852 

*Charles Parry, Indianapolis 1851 1852 

*William H. Byford, Evansville 1852 1853 

"William Davidson, Madison 1852 1853 

: Yielding Kersey, Milton 1852 1S53 

*Talbott Bullard, Indianapolis 1852 1853 



MEDICAL HJ8T0BY OF INDIANA. 179 

"Nathan Johnson, Cambridge City 1853 1854 

Mam.- s. McClelland, Jefferson/. 1853 1854 

*Myron H. Harding, Lawrenceburg 1853 1854 

Samuel Reid, Salem 1853 1854 

•Othniel L. Clark. Lafayette 1854 1855 

Pleasant S. Shields. New Albany 1854 1855 

"Joel Pennington, Milton 1854 1855 

""John L. Mothershead, Indianapolis 185-1 185o 

"George Sutton, Aurora 1855 1856 

^George B. Walker, Evansville 1855 1856 

Charles Bowman, Xew Albany 1855 1856 

■Daniel Meeker, Laporte 1855 1856 

-John Sloan, Xew Albany 1856 1857 

:: Willis W. Hitt, Vincemies 1856 1857 

"Thomas W. Florer, Alamo 1856 1857 

*John Moffett, Rushville. . 1856 1857 

"■Thomas J. Cogley, Madison 1857 1858 

David Hutchinson, Mooresville 1857 1858 

"Calvin West. Hagerstown 1857 1858 

" : William Pv. Winton, Wabash 1857 1858 

■■Thomas K. Austin, Xew Albany 1858 1859 

"Benjamin Newland, Bedford 1858 1859 

"Thomas W. Fry, Crawfordsville 1858 1S59 

" : "Milton M. Latta, Goshen 1858 1859 

*John Sloan. Xew Albany 1859 1860 

-Robert M. O'Ferrall, Lafayette 1859 1860 

* James S. McClelland, Jefferson 1859 1860 

"Richard E. Haughton, Richmond 1859 1860 

♦Jonathan N. Green, Stilesville 1860 1861 

"Charles Fishback, Shelbyville 1860 1861 

- : Louis Humphrey, South Bend 1860 1861 

"Isaac Casselberry, Evansville 1860 1861 

Talvin West. Hagerstown 1861 1862 

Henry Cox. Danville 1861 1862 

"Alfred H. Robbins, Rochester 1861 1862 

"John A. Skinner, Vincennes 1861 1862 

*William R. Winton, Wabash 1862 1863 

* Horatio G. Sexton, Rushville 1862 1863 

"Albert G. Preston, Greencastle 1862 1863 

*John Moffett, Rushville. . < 1862 1863 

* Albert G. Preston, Greencastle 1863 1864 



180 UEDWAL HISTORY OP INDIANA. 

•John Moffett, Rushville 1863 1864 

•Benjamin Newland, Bedford 1863 1864 

"Calvin West, Hagerstown 1863 1864 

•Wilson Lockhart, Danville 1864 1865 

•Thomas B. Harvey, Indianapolis 1865 I860 

"James H. Woodbnrn, Indianapolis 1866 186V 

•Robert B. Jessup, Vincennes 1867 1868 

*Robert X. Todd. Indianapolis 1868 1869 

•Henry P. Ayres, Fort Wayne 1869 1870 

'"Isaac M. Rosenthal, Fort Wayne 1870 1871 

•James K. Bigelow, Indianapolis 1871 1872 

•Richard E. Haughton, Richmond 1872 1873 

•Wilson Hobbs, Knightstown 1873 1874 

•William B. Lyons, Huntington 1874 1875 

•Ferdinand W. Beard, Vincennes 1875 1876 

Edmund D. Laughlin, Orleans 1876 1877 

•Noble P. Howard, Greenfield 1877 1878 

•Benjamin Newland. Bedford 1878 1879 

•James D. Gatch, Lawrenceburg 1879 1880 

•John D. Mitchell, Terre Haute 1880 1881 

Flavius J. Van Vorhis, Indianapolis 1881 1882 

•Samuel H. Charlton, Seymour 1882 1883 

William H. Schultz, Lebanon 1883 1884 

•James S. Gregg, Fort Wayne 1884 1885 

William J. Hurt, Waynetown 1885 1886 

William V. Wiles, Spencer 1886 1887 

Calvin W. Burket, Warsaw 1887 1888 

•Albert G. Porter, Lebanon 1888 1889 

Silas T. Yount, Lafayette 1889 1890 

Hugh D. Wood, Angola 1890 1891 

Ervin Wright, Huntington 1891 1892 

Carter H. Smith, Lebanon 1892 1893 

Thomas F. Leech, Crawfordsville 1893 1894 

Charles S. Bond, Richmond 1894 1895 

Edgar L. Larkins, Terre Haute 1895 1896 

William F. Batman, Lebanon 1896 1897 

Jonas Stewart, Anderson 1897 1898 

George F. Keiper, Lafayette 1898 1899 

Samuel Kennedy, Shelbyville 1899 1900 

Anexamander M. Hayden. Evansville. . . . 1900 1901 

John B. Berteling, South Bend 1901 1902 

William H. Gilbert, Evansville 1902 1903 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 181 

MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 

Charles A. White, Danville 1903 1904 

Isaac X. Trent, Muncie 1903 1904 

Maurice G. Moore, Vincennes 1903 1904 

Homer J. Hall, Franklin 1904 1905 

Claude T. Hendershot, Cannelton 1904 1905 

David J. Loring, Valparaiso 1904 1905 

David W. Stevenson, Richmond 1905 1906 

Harry C. Sharp, Jeffersonville 1905 1906 

William R. Davidson, Evansville 1905 1906 

Jonathan B. Garber, Dunkirk 1906 1907 

Charles C. Terry, South Bend 1906 1907 

Charles Chittick, Frankfort 1906 1907 

William H. Stemm, North Vernon 1907 1908 

August F. Knoefel, Linton 1907 1908 

George R. Green, Muncie 1907 1908 

Edward D. Freeman, Osgood 1908 1909 

Charles H. McCully, Logansport 1908 1909 

Charles Chittick, Frankfort 1908 1909 

Edmund M. Van Buskirk, Fort Wayne 1909 1910 

Eugene Hawkins, Greencastle 1909 1910 

Theodore Potter, Indianapolis 1909 1910 

John N. Hurty, Indianapolis 1910 1911 

Andrew S. Dickey, Tipton 1910 1911 

James P. Salb, Jasper 1910 1911 

A CORRECTED LIST OF PHYSICIANS PRESENT 

AT THE MEDICAL CONVENTION HELD AT 

INDIANAPOLIS, JUNE 6, 1849 

Inasmuch as a number of errors occur in the list of 
names on page 145, I have deemed it proper to repro- 
duce them in a corrected form, with the christian name 
supplied in some instances where omissions occurred. 
I have chosen to give them in alphabetical order at 
this time. The men who founded our present State 
Medical Association, deserve at least to have their 
names correctly recorded. Dr. William H. Wishard, 
whose name is the last in the list, will be the last of 



♦Deceased. 



182 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

the eighty-four to pass away. On Jan. 17, 1911, hi 

celebrated hi* ninety-fifth birthday. 

ALLEN, JOSEPH Crawfordsville 

ARDERY, JOSEPH C Decatur Co. 

ARMINGTON, JOHX L Greensburg 

ATI! OX. JAMES S Charlestown 

BALLARD, CHESTER G Waveland 

BOBBS, JOHN S Indianapolis 

BOYD. JOHN M Thorntown 

BROWER, JEREMIAH H Lawrenceburg 

BULLARD, (TALBOTT Indianapolis 

BYERS, WILLIAM J Frankfort 

CLAPP, ASAHEL New Albany 

CLAPP, WILLIAM A New Albany 

COLLUM, WILLIAM F Jeff er son vill'e 

CONN. RICHARD B Ripley Co. 

COOPER, WILLIAM New Albany 

CORNETT, WILLIAM T. S Riplev Co. 

COWGILL, TARVIN W Greencastle 

CURRAN, ROBERT Indianapolis 

DAVIDSON, WILLIAM Madison 

DOWLING, HENRY M New Albanv 

DUNLAP, LIVINGSTON Indianapolis 

ELDRIDGE, ALBERT Dearborn County 

FARQUHAR, URIAH Logansport 

FENLEY, ISAAC Columbus 

FLORER, THOMAS W Alamo 

FOSTER. WILLIAM C, SR Bloomington 

FRANCIS, JAMES K Ripley County 

FRY, THOMAS W Crawfordsville 

FUNKHOUSER, DAVID Indianapolis 

GALL, ALOIS D Indianapolis 

GASTON, JOHN M Indianapolis 

GORDON, JONATHAN W Dearborn County 

HAMIL. ROBERT C Bloomington 

HARDING. MYRON H Lawrenceburg 

HARRISON. JAMES S Indianapolis 

HELM, JEFFERSON Rushville 

HENKLE, Wabash 

HINMAN, HOMER T Columbus 

HITT. WASHINGTON WILLIS Vincennes 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 183 

HOLCOMB, JOHN B Madison 

HUGGIXS, GEORGE M Darlington 

HUNT, ANDREW M Indianapolis 

HUNT, FRANKLIN W Laporte 

HUNT, JOHN Madison County 

HUTCHINSON, DAVID Mooresville 

JAMESON, PATRICK H Indianapolis 

JOHNSON, H. V. V Broad Ripple 

JOHNSON, NATHAN Cambridge City 

JUDKINS, STANTON. ..New Garden, Wayne Co. 

KERSEY, VIERLING Milton 

LEONARD, SOMERVELL E New Albany 

LEWIS, JOHN Ripley County 

MAHAN, OLIVER P Crawfordsville 

MAXWELL, JAMES D Bloomington 

MEARS, GEORGE W Indianapolis 

MOODEY, JOHN W Greensburg 

MOTHERSHEAD, JOHN L Indianapolis 

MULLEN, ALEXANDER J Napoleon 

MULLEN, BERNARD FRANCIS Napoleon 

MULLEN, JOHN WILLIAM Madison 

NEW, GEORGE W Greensburg 

NUTT, JOHN Marion County 

PARRY, CHARLES Indianapolis 

PATTERSON, R. J Indianapolis 

PEGG, JESSE A New Garden 

PRESTOX', ALBERT G Greencastle 

RAMSEY, C. S Indianapolis 

RODGERS, JOSEPH H. D Madison 

RYAX T . TOWNSEXD Anderson 

SANDERS, JOHN H Indianapolis 

SCRIBNER, WILLIAM A New Albany 

SHIELDS, PLEASANT S New Albany 

SIXEX, WILLIAM G X T ew Albany 

SLOAX T , JOHN New Albany 

SMITH, WILLIAM R Cumberland 

TALBOTT, HIRAM E Greencastle 

TAYLOR, W. H Dearborn County 

THOMPSOX^. W. CLINTON Indianapolis 

TICHXOR, JAMES Crawfordsville 

WALLACE. CHARLES Belleville 



1S4 UEDICAL HISTORY OF IXDIANA. 

WELDON, SAMUEL J . . . Covington 

WHITE, WILLIAM Prairieville, Clinton Co. 

WILEY. JOHN HEZEKIAH Richmond 

WISHARD, WILLIAM H Johnson County 

Total 84. 




WILLIAM H. WISHARD 

The last survivor of the Medical Convention of 1849 



CHAPTER XIX 

WAR HISTORY. 
Indiana Physicians in the Mexican War. 

There were five Indiana regiments in the Mex- 
ican War, numbered from One to Five. Sixty- 
three years have elapsed since the close of that 
war and the surgeons have all passed away. 

Strange to say, the Mexican War left no valu- 
able medical history or records. I find in the In- 
diana Journal of Medicine, volume 5, page 145 
(August, 1874), a contribution from Dr. Alfred 
Patton, late of Vincennes, Ind., entitled "Recol- 
lections of Medical Service During the War with 
Mexico." In this paper Dr. Patton narrates 
some interesting observations during his service 
in that country. The doctor went out as a pri- 
vate soldier in the First Mississippi Rifles (Jeif 
Davis' Regiment), but soon after arriving there 
was detailed in the medical department, where 
he rendered service during the continuance of 
the war. I may also state that Dr. Patton dur- 
ing the late Civil War served as brigade surgeon 
of Maxey's Brigade (Confederate). 

It is possible that some other Indiana physi- 
cians may have served in the ranks or as officers 
during the war, but I have no means at hand for 
ascertaining their names. 



L86 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

FIRST INDIANA VOLUNTEER REGIMENT. 

Surgeon, Dr. Caleb V. .Tones* (promoted from 
private) ; assistant surgeon, Dr. William Fos- 
dick. 

SECOND INDIANA VOLUNTEER REGIMENT. 

Surgeon, Dr. Daniel S. Lane; assistant sur- 
geon, Dr. John T. Walker. 

THIRD INDIANA VOLUNTEER REGIMENT. 

Surgeon, Dr. James S. Athon; assistant sur- 
geon, Dr. John G. Dunn. 

FOURTH INDIANA VOLUNTEER REGIMENT. 

A note from the Adjutant General's office at 
Washington, D. C, says: "Isaac Fenley, con- 
tract surgeon, United States Army, is shown to 
have been on duty with the Fourth Indiana In- 
fantry Volunteers in the years 1847 and 1848. 
Nothing has been found of record to show that 
any other person was on duty with that organi- 
zation in a medical capacity." (Letter Dec. 14, 
1908, G. W. H. K.)f 



* See Transactions 1884, p. 213. Was surgeon of the 
63d Ind. Vols, in Civil War. 

t "While at Matamoras an amusing incident occurred. 
Charges were preferred against one of the medical officers 
of Col. Willis A. Gorman's [Fourth] Indiana regiment, and 
I was ordered by the medical director to investigate the 
charges. I found Colonel Gorman and one of his captains 
in waiting for me at the colonel's headquarters. In a few 
words the captain explained the nature of the charge, when 
he asked, 'What would you think of the skill of a physi- 
cian who prescribed gunpowder, tar and beefsteak, as a 
diet for a patient very low with typhoid fever?' This was 
more serious than I expected, and I demanded to see the 
prescription, which I found was written in the doctor's 
best style, and which I readily deciphered to mean, 'Diet — 
Gunpowder tea, and beef tea, every four hours alternately.' 
I explained the prescription to the colonel and the officers 
making the charge, and left them better satisfied with their 
medical officer. The moral of this is that doctors should 
learn to write a legible hand, as from the neglect to do so 
they often suffer in reputation, and that which is far worse, 
it sometimes leads to serious mistakes by druggists and 
nurses."— Dr. Alfred Pattox. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 187 
FIFTH INDIANA VOLUNTEER REGIMENT. 

Surgeon, Dr. James S. Athon ; assistant Bur- 
geon, Dr. P. G. Jones. 

Alphabetical List of Surgeons and Assist- 
ant Surgeons Who Served in Indiana 
Regiments During the Civil War.* 

Forty-six years have elapsed since Lee's sur- 
render at Appomattox. 

Indiana sent out into the Civil War 136 regi- 
ments of infantry, 13 regiments of cavalry, 1 
regiment of artillery, 25 companies of artillery. 
Including 2,130 naval volunteers, Indiana sent 
210,497 men to that war, and to care for these 
she supplied about 500 surgeons. There were 
24,416 of the sons of Indiana who laid down 
their lives for their country in that war. 

The regiments in the Mexican War had one 
surgeon and one assistant surgeon, while those in 
the Civil War had one surgeon and two assistant 
surgeons. 

In many instances Governor Morton sent civil 
surgeons to help care for the wounded after great 
engagements. A large majority of these surgeons 
have passed away and the minority is rapidly de- 
creasing. 



* In the preparation of this list I have expended both 
time and care, having diligently compared those of "Adju- 
tant General's Report of Indiana," "Roster of Regimental 
Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons During the War of the 
Rebellion,'' and the "Official Army Register of the Volun- 
teer Force of the United States Army." I wish also, to 
acknowledge valuable assistance from Ma.i. W. W. 
Daugherty, Recorder Military Order of the Loyal Legion of 
the United States. Indianapolis. — G. W. H. K. 



L88 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

Several surgeons saw service in two, and a 
fewer number in three regiments, and some phy- 
sicians served as hospital stewards. 

It must be borne in mind that a number of 
Indiana physicians also served as combatants 
during the Civil War. Many were enlisted as 
privates and also line officers of regiments. Quite 
a number of men who served in the Civil War, 
and possibly also in the Mexican War, took up 
the study of medicine after their return home 
and became valuable members of the medical 
profession. 

ABBOTT, CHARLES H.— Asst. Surg.. 36th Infantry. 

ABORN, ORIN— Asst. Surg., 40th Infantry. 

ADAMS, DAVID— Asst. Surg., 51st Infantry. 

ADAMS, JAMES R.— Asst, Surg., 58th Infantry; Sur- 
geon, 15th Infantrv. 

ADAMS, MARCELLUS M.— Asst. Surg., 116th In- 
fantry. 

AICHELE, EMIL— Asst. Surg., 32nd Infantry. 

ALLEN, JOSEPH S.— Surgeon, 10th Infantry. 

ALLEN, WILLIAM S.— Asst. Surg., 143rd Infantry. 

ALEXANDER, JOHN H.— Asst. Surg., 27th Infantry; 
Surgeon, 27th Infantry. 

ANDERSON, JOSEPH V.— Asst. Surg.. 15th Infantry. 

ANDERSON, WILLIAM— Surgeon, 37th Infantrv. 

APPLEGATE, CHARLES H.— Asst. Surg., 73rd In- 
fantry. 

ARCHER, SAMUEL M.— Asst. Surg., 133d Infantry. 

ARMSTRONG, JAMES B.— Surgeon, 31st Infantry. 

ARNOLD. MARTIN B.— Asst. Surg.. 155th Infantry. 

ARTHUR. CHRISTOPHER S.— Surgeon, 75th Inf. 

AVERDICK, HENRY G.— Surgeon. "35th Infantry. 

AVERY, INCREASE J.— Surgeon. 10th Infantry. 

AVERY, JOHN P.— Asst. Surg., 11th Infantry.' 

AUSTIN, THOMAS D.— Surgeon, 23rd Infantry. 

BABBITT, EDWARD D.— Asst. Surg., 34th Infantry. 

BAKER, BRAXTON— Asst. Surg., 130th Infantry. 

BALLARD, MICAJAH— Asst. Surg.. 140th Infantry. 

BANKS, EPHRAIM N.— Surgeon, 54th Infantry. 

BARE, ADDISON W.— Asst. Surg., 82nd Infantry. 



MEDIC A L HISTOR Y OF FN DIANA. 1 89 

BARE. JOHN R.— Surgeon, CGth Infantry. 

BARKER. WILLIAM L.— Surgeon, 120th Infantry. 

BASSETT. JOHN Q. A.— Asst. Surg., 74th Infantry. 

BAYSE. THOMAS S.— Surgeon, 36th Infantrv. 

BEACHLEY, NATHANIEL J.— Asst. Surg., 22d In- 
fantry. 

BECK, ELI AS W. H.— Surgeon, 3rd Cavalry. 

BECK. WILLIAM H.— Surgeon, 145th Infantrv. 

BECKWITH. LOD W.— Surgeon, 38th Infantrv. 

BEEBE, JAMES— Asst. Surg., 148th Infantrv. 

BEEKS, GREEN C— Surgeon, 150th Infantry. . 

BELL. NATHANIEL G.— Asst. Surg.. 35th Infantrv. 

BENCE, ROBERT F.— Surgeon, 33rd Infantry. 

BENNETT, BASIL B.— Asst. Surg., 101st Infantrv. 

BENSON, JULIUS L.— Asst. Surg., 7th Cavalry. 

BERRYMAN, JAMES A.— Asst. Surg., 135th In- 
fantrv. 

BIGELOW, JAMES K.— Surgeon, 8th Infantry. 

BIGNEY, PETER M.— Asst. Surg., 18th Infanty. 

BLACKWELL, JOHN A.— Surgeon, 115th Infantry. 

BLACKSTONE, JOHN K.— Asst. Surg., 9th Infantry. 

BLAIR, WILLIAM W.— Surgeon, 58th Infantrv. 

BLASER. FELIX F.— Asst. Surg., 32nd Infantry. 

BLOUNT, RUFUS F.— Asst. Surg., 118th Infantrv. 

BODMAN, ELAM— Asst. Surg., 30th Infantry. 

BOGART, HENRY J.— Asst. Surg., 139th Infantrv. 

BOGLE, CHRISTOPHER F.— Asst. Surg., 43rd Inf. 

BOND, RICHARD C— Surgeon, 15th Infantry. 

BOOR, WILLIAM F.— Surgeon, 4th Cavalry. 

BOSWORTH, RICHARD— Asst. Surg., 36th Infantry. 

BOUNELL, MATHEW H.— Surgeon, 116th Infantrv. 

BOYD, SAMUEL S.— Surgeon, 84th Infantry. 

BOYNTON, CHARLES S.— Surgeon, 24th Infantry; 
Surgeon, 67th Infantry. 

BOYSE, THOMAS F.— Asst. Surg., 36th Infantry. 

BRACKETT, CHARLES— Asst. Surg., 1st Cavalry. 

BRAY, MADISON J.— Surgeon, 60th Infantry. 

BRAZELTON, JOHN B.— Asst. Surg., 134th Infantrv. 

BRENTON, WILLIAM H.— Asst. Surg., 73rd Infantry. 

BROOKS, MORDECAI— Asst. Surg., 82nd Infantrv/ 

BROWN, CLAY— Asst. Surg., 11th Infantry. 

BROWN, JACOB R.— Asst. Surg., 29th Infantrv. 

BROWN, JESSE R.— Asst. Surg., 57th Infantry. 

BROWN, S. CLAY— Asst. Surg.. 8th Infantry:' Sur- 
geon, 18th Infantrv. 

BROWN, WILKINS B.— Surgeon. 59th Infantrv. 



190 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

BROWNE, JOHN T.— Asst. Surg., 12th Cavalry. 

BRUCE, GEORGE W— Asst. Surg., 1st Cavalry; Asst. 
Surg., 8th Infantry; Surgeon, 142nd Infantry. 

BRUCKER, MAGNUS— Surgeon, 23rd Infantry. 

BRUSIE, LUTHER— Asst. Surg., 3rd Cavalry. 

BRYAX. GEORGE W.— Asst. Surg., 67th Infantry. 

BRYSON, FRANK T.— Surgeon, 48th Infantry/ 

BUCK, ROBERT H.— Surgeon, 13th Cavalry; Asst. 
Surg., 75th Infantry; Surgeon, 118th Infantry. 

BURTON, WILLIAM A— Asst. Surg., 24th Infantry; 
Asst. Surg., 57th Infantry. 

BUSHNELL, SAMUEL B.— Asst. Surg, 11th Cavalry. 

BUTTERWORTH, WILLIAM W.— Surgeon, 99th In- 
fantry. 

BUZETTj EDWARD F.— Surgeon, 49th Infantry. 

BYERS, ALEXANDER R.— Surgeon, 65th Infantry. 

BYRN, SPEXCER— Asst. Surg, 23rd Infantry. 

CALDERWOOD, JAMES C— Asst. Surg, 23rd In- 
fantry. 

CAMPBELL, JOHX C. L.— Asst. Surg, 21st Infantry. 

CAMPFIELD, JOHN A.— Asst. Surg, 12th Infantry. 

CARLEY, RUSH— Asst. Surg, 146th Infantry. 

CARR, GEORGE W.— Asst. Surg, 44th Infantry; Sur- 
geon, 129th Infantry. 

CASSELBERRY, ISAAC— Surgeon, 1st Cavalry. 

CASTERLINE, AMOS B.— Asst. Surg, 52nd Infantry. 

CASTERLINE, ZIBA— Asst. Surg, 84th Infantry. 

CHAMBERLAIX, JAMES M.— Surgeon, 152nd In- 
fantry. 

CHAMBERLAIX. X. A.— Surgeon, 13th Infantry. 

CHAMP, GEORGE W.— Asst. Surg, 139th Infantry. 

CHAXDLER, JOSEPH A.— Asst. Surg, 155th Infantry. 

CHARLTON, ROBERT— Surgeon, 79th Infantry. 

CHARLTON, SAMUEL H.— Asst. Surg, 6th Infantry. 

CHITTENDEN, GEORGE F.— Surgeon, 16th Infantry. 

CHITWOOD, JOSHUA— Surgeon, 7th Cavalry. 

CLAPP, WILLIAM A.— Surgeon, 38th Infantry. 

CLIPPINGER, GEORGE' W.— Surgeon, 14th Infantry. 

CLOWES, DAVID A.— Asst. Surg.. 12th Cavalry. 

COLE, WILLIAM C— Surgeon, 72nd Infantry. 

COLEMAN, ASA— Protem Asst. Surg, 46th Infantrv. 

COLEMAN, HORACE^-Surgeon. 46th Infantrv. 

COLLETT, JOSEPH T.— Asst. Surg, 6th Cavalry. 

COLLINGS, ISAAC S.— Asst. Surg, 57th Infantry; 
Surgeon. 57th Infantry. 

COLLINS, ERASMUS B.— Surgeon, 51st Infantry. 

COLLINS, GEORGE M.— Asst. Surg, 17th Infantry. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 191 

COLLINS, WILLIAM A.— Asst. Surg., 6th Infantry. 

COMINGOR, JOHN A.— Surgeon, 11th Infantry. 

CONFER, JAMES M.— Surgeon, 29th Infantry. 

CONN, ISAAC T.— Asst. Surg., 21st Infantry! 

CONNETT, MAHLON C— Asst. Surg., 8th Cavalry. 

COOK, ROBERT H.— Asst. Surg., 12th Infantry. 

COOPER, JOEL S.— Asst. Surg., 115th Infantry. 

COX, JESSE T.— Asst. Surg., 89th Infantry. 

CRAIG, ISAAC N.— Surgeon, 13th Infantry. 

CRAIG, JOHN M.— Asst. Surg., 134th Infantry; Asst. 
Surg., 146th Infantry. 

CRAVENS, JAMES W.— Asst. Surg., 1st Cavalry. 

CRESAP, WILLIAM S.— Asst. Surg., 135th Infantry; 
Asst. Surg., 154th Infantry. 

CROSBY, THOMAS H.— Asst. Surg., 47th Infantry. 

GROUSE, HENRY M.— Surgeon, 57th Infantry. 

CRO WIDER, ROBERT H.— Surgeon, 11th Cavalry. 

CULBERTSON, DAVID P.— Asst. Surg., 43rd Infantry. 

CULBERTSON, JOSEPH R.— Asst. Surg., 10th Cav- 
alry. 

CULBERTSON, ROBERT H.— Asst. Surg., 80th In- 
fantry. 

CULLEN, JOHN C— Surgeon, 16th Infantry. 

CURRY, JOHN— Surgeon, 38th Infantry. 

CYRUS, WILLIAM H.— Asst. Surgeon, "54th Infantry. 

DALY, GEORGE P.— Asst. Surg., 78th Infantry. 

DARNELL, MILTON, B.— Asst. Surgeon, 43rd In- 
fantry; Surgeon. 43rd Infantry. 

DAUGHTERS. ANDREW P.— Surgeon, 18th Infantry. 

DAVIS, JOHN B.— Asst. Surg., 21st Infantry. 

DAVIS, JOHN W.— Asst. Surg., 6th Infantry; Asst. 
Surg., 24th Infantry. 

DAVIS, JOSEPH H.— Asst. Surg., 145th Infantry. 

DAVIS, ROBERT P.— Asst. Surg., 84th Infantry. 

DAVIS, SAMUEL— Surgeon, 83rd Infantry. 

DAVIS, SOLOMON— Surgeon, 10th Cavalry; Surgeon, 
53rd Infantry. 

DAVIDSON, BENJAMIN F.— Asst. Surg., 143rd In- 
fantry. 

DAVIDSON, WILLIAM— Asst. Surg., 76th Infantry. 

DAVISSON, HENRY C— Asst. Surg., 54th Infantrv. 

DEWEY. ANNIN W.— Surgeon. 101st Infantrv. 

DICKEN. JAMES L.— Surgeon, 47th Infantry. 

DIXON, WILLIAM H.— Asst. Surg., 59th Infantry. 

DOANE, GEORGE M.— Asst. Surg., 46th Infantrv. 

DODD, JAMES— Asst. Surg., 67th Infantry. 

DODGE, HENRY C— Asst. Surg., 74th Infantry. 



L92 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

DODSON, JONAS II.— Asst. Surg., 4th Cavalry. 
DOME, DAVID C— Asst. Surgeon, 17th Infantry. 
DOWNEY, WILLIAM A.— Asst. Surg.. 58th Infantry. 
DUFFIELD, JAMES T.— Asst. Surg.. 7th Infantry; 

Surgeon, 76th infantry. 

DUFFY, JOHN S.— Asst. Surg., 145th Infantry. 

DUKATE, JOHN S.— Asst. Surg., 53rd Infantry. 

DUNN, WILLIAMSON P.— Asst. Surg., 40th Infantry. 

DUNN, WILLIAMSON D.— Asst. Surg., 21st Infantry, 
1st Heavy Artillery. 

DTK AND. AMOS M.— Asst. Surg., 50th Infantry; 
Asst. Surg., 52nd Infantry. 

DUTTON, DANIEL B.— Asst/ Surg., 123rd Infantry. 

EASTERLIXG. AMOS— Asst. Surg., 51st Infantry. 

EBERSOLE, JACOB— Surgeon, 19th Infantry. 

EDGERLE, GEORGE W.— Asst. Surg., 8th Infantry. 

EDWINS, STANLEY W.— Asst. Surg., 124th Infantry. 

ELIOTT. JAMES S.— Surgeon. 86th Infantry. 

ELLIS, HAMILTON E.— Surgeon, 43rd Infantry. 

ELSTON, WILLIAM T.— Asst. Surg., 151st Infantry. 

ENO. NEWTON G.— Asst. Surg., 88th Infantry. 

EVANS. DAVID S.— Surgeon, 69th Infantry. 

EVERTS, ORPHEUS— Surgeon, 20th Infantry. 

FERGUSON, WILLIAM T.— Asst. Surg., 142nd In- 
fantry. 

FIELD. NATHANIEL— Surgeon, 66th Infantry. 

FISHER, ELIAS— Surgeon, 16th Infantry. 

FITZGERALD, DAVID A.— Asst. Surg., 47th Infantry. 

FITZGERALD, JENKINS A.— Asst. Surg., 70th In- 
fantry. 

FLACK, WILLIAM C— Surgeon, 50th Infantry. 

FLORER, THOMAS W.— Surgeon, 26th Infantry. 

FORD. JAMES— Surgeon, 8th Infantry. 

FORD, JOHN H.— Surgeon, 93rd Infantry. 

FORSTMEYER, EMIL— Asst. Surg., 32nd Infantry. 

FOSDICK, ALBERT C— Surgeon, 5th Cavalry. 

FOSTER. WILLIAM C— Asst. Surg., 13th Infantry. 

FOUTS, WILLIAM D.— Surgeon, 81st Infantry. 

FRANCE, SAMUEL— Surgeon, 100th Infantry. 

FREEMAN, SAMUEL A.— Asst. Surg., 30th Infantry. 

FREEMAN, WILLIAM— Surgeon, 7th Cavalry; Asst. 
Surg., 52nd Infantry. 

FRENCH. JOHN S.— Asst. Surg., 120th Infantry. 

FRITTS. THOMAS J.— Asst. Surg., 3rd Cavalry; Asst. 
Surg., 8th Cavalry. 

FRY, THOMAS W.. Sr.— Surgeon. 11th Infantry. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 193 

FULLERTON, GEORGE W.— Asst. Surg., 136th In- 
fantry. 

GALL, ALOIS D.— Surgeon, 13th Infantry. 

GARRETT, ANTHONY— Surgeon, 63rd Infantry. 

GARRISON, HEROD D.— Asst. Surg.. 4th Cavalry. 

GARRISON, JAMES L. F.— Surgeon, 52nd Infantry. 

GARVEB., HENRY F.— Asst. Surg., 19th Infantry. 

GARVER, JAMES A.— Asst. Surg., 8th Cavalry; Sur- 
geon, 136th Infantry. 

GATCH, JAMES D.— Asst. Surg., 16th Infantry. 

GENTRY, ZACHARIAH B.— Surgeon, 154th Infantry. 

GEBRARD, JEROME B.— Asst. Surg., 35th Infantry; 
Asst. Surg., 117th Infantry. 

GERRISH, JAMES W. F.— Surgeon, 67th Infantry. 

GILLESPIE, WILLIAM— Asst. Surg., 7th Infantry; 
Surgeon, 83rd Infantry. 

GILLUM, JAMES— Asst. Surg., 138th Infantry. 

GILMORE, ALEXANDER W.— Asst. Surg., 9th In- 
fantry. 

GLICK, ELIAS B.— Surgeon, 40th Infantry. 

GOLDSBERRY, JOHN A.— Asst. Surg., 21st Infantry. 

GOODWIN, JOHN R.— Asst. Surg., 37th Infantry. 

GORDON, GEORGE W.— Surgeon, 18th Infantry. 

GORRELL, JOSEPH R.— Asst. Surg., 129th Infantry. 

GOSS, JAMES M.— Asst. Surg., 149th Infantry. 

GOULD, VERNON— Asst. Surg., 87th Infantry. 

GRAHAM, WILLIAM B.— Surgeon, 101st Infantry. 

GRAY, ARTHUR W.— Surgeon, 24th Infantry. 

GRAY, JOHN M.— Surgeon, 8th Cavalry. 

GREGG, JAMES S.— Surgeon, 88th Infantry. 

GREGG, VINCENT H.— Surgeon, 124th Infantry. 

GREEN, HIRAM S.— Asst. Surg., 73rd Infantry. 

GREEN, JOHN N.— Asst. Surg., 19th Infantry. 

GRIFFITH, JOHN C— Asst. Surg., 29th Infantry. 

GRINWELL, JOHN L.— Asst. Surg., 34th Infantry. 

GROVE, JASPER M.— Asst. Surg., 7th Cavalry. 

GROVEPv, HENRY C— Asst. Surg., 20th Infantry. 

GUFFIN, JOHN— Asst. Surg., 20th Infantry; Surgeon, 
156th. 

HAINES, ABRAM B.— Asst. Surg., 19th Infantry; 
Asst. Surg., 20th Infantry; Surgeon, 146th In- 
fantry. 

HALL, DANIEL D.— Asst. Surg., 36th Infantry. 

HAM, LEVI J.— Surgeon, 48th Infantry. 

HARRIMAN, SIMEON B.— Asst. Surg., 34th Infantry. 

HARRIS, WILLIAM B.— Asst. Surg., 82nd Infantry. 

HARRISON, ROBERT G.— Asst. Surg., 120th Infantry. 



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HARRISON, THOMAS H.— Asst. Surg., 150th Infantrv. 

HAWK, EMANUEL R.— Asst. Surg., 21st Infantry, 
1st Heavy Artillery; Surgeon, 49th Infantry; 
Surgeon, 144th Infantrv. 

HAYES, SAMUEL M.— Asst. Surg., 30th Infantry. 

HAYMOND, WILLIAM S.— Asst. Surg., 46th Infantrv. 

HE AXON, JOHNSON F.— Asst. Surg., 29th Infantrv. 

HELMER, ORLANDO H.— Asst. Surg., 43rd Infantry. 

HENDERSON, JOHN F.— Surgeon, 89th Infantry. 

HENDRICKS. WILLIAM C— Surgeon, 31st Infantry; 
Surgeon, 147th Infantry. 

HENRY; DAVID H.— Asst. Surg., 17th Infantry. 

HENRY, ROBERT— Asst. Surg., 65th Infantry. 

HERYEY, JAMES W.— Asst. Surg., 50th Infantry. 

HERYEY, THOMAS P.— Asst. Surg., 50th Infantry. 

HIATT, CHRISTOPHER C— Asst. Surg., 5th Cavalry; 
Surgeon, 6th Cavalry. 

HIGBEE, EDWARD S.— Surgeon, 74th Infantrv. 

HIGINBOTHAM, SAMUEL— Surgeon, 87th Infantry. 

HILBURN, JABEZ C— Surgeon, 97th Infantry. 

HITCHCOCK, JOHN W.— Surgeon, 18th Infantry; 
Surgeon, 133rd Infantrv. 

HITT, JOHN Y.— Surgeon, 17th Infantrv. 

HOAGLAND, JOHN S— Asst. Surg., 53rd Infantry. 

HOBBS, WILLIAM P.— Asst. Surg., 85th Infantry. 

HOBBS, WILSON— Surgeon, 85tlTlnfantry. 

HOCHSTETTER, JACOB P.— Surgeon, 57th Infantrv. 

HODGKINS, LEWIS W.— Asst. Surg.. 68th Infantry. 

HOFFMAN, MAX F. A.— Asst. Surg., 9th Infantry; 
Surgeon, 128th Infantry. 

HOLTZMAN, SAMUEL E.— Surgeon. 58th Infantrv. 

HORNBROOK, WILLIAM P.— Asst. Surg., 42nd In- 
fantry. 

HORNER, JACOB S.— Surgeon, 53rd Infantrv. 

HOUGHLAND, WILLIAM T.— Asst. Surg., "25th In- 
fantry. 

HOUSER, JACOB II.— Asst. Surg., 10th Cavalry. 

HOWARD, NOBLE P.— Asst. Surg., 12th Infantry. 

HUMPHREYS, LOUIS— Surgeon. 29th Infantry. 

HUNT, ANDREW M.— Asst. Surg., 33rd Infantry. 

HUNTER, JAMES B.— Surgeon, 60th Infantrv. 

HURD, ANSON— Surgeon, 14th Infantry; Asst. Surg., 
20th Infantry. 

HUTCHINSON, DAVID— Surgeon, 30th Infantry. 

IRELAND, WILLIAM H.— Asst. Surg., 22nd Infantry. 

IRWIN, GEORGE E.— Asst. Surg., 93rd Infantry. 

JAQUESS, GEORGE D.— Surgeon, 80th Infantry. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 195 

JAY, JAMES C— Asst. Surg., 7th Cavalry. 

JEANCON, JOHN ALLARD— Surgeon, 32nd Infantry. 

JESSUP, ROBERT B.— Surgeon, 24th Infantry. 

JOHNSON, ISAAC C— Asst. Surg., 153rd Infantry. 

JOHNSON, JAR.VIS J.— Surgeon, 27th Infantry. 

JOHNSON, JOHN B.— Asst. Surg., 72nd Infantry. 

JOHNSON, SAMUEL F.— Surgeon, 65th Infantry. 

JOHNSON, THOMAS J.— Asst. Surg., 25th Infantry. 

JOHNSON. WILLIAM W.— Asst. Surg., 85th Infantry. 

JONES, CALEB V.— Surgeon. 63rd Infantry. 

JONES, GEORGE W.— Asst. Surg., 63rd Infantry. 

JONES, HARRY— Asst. Surg., 57th Infantry. 

JONES, JAMES T.— Asst. Surg., 132nd Infantry. 

JONES, JOHN H.— Asst. Surg., 13th Cavalry. 

JONES, JOSEPH— Surgeon, 86th Infantry. 

JOrfES, THOMAS N.— Asst. Surg., 2nd Cavalry; Sur- 
geon, 130th Infantry. 

JONES, WILLIAM B.— Surgeon. 149th Infantry. 

JOSSE, JOHN M.— Surgeon, 32nd Infantry. 
1", ROBERT— Asst. g 
Surg., 144th Infantry. 

KAY. DAVID G— Surgeon, 81st Infantry. 

KEEN, LORENZO S.— Surgeon, 29th Infantry. 

KEISER, ALFRED— Asst. Surg., 124th Infantry. 

KELLY, MATHEW— Asst. Surg., 82nd Infantry. 

KELSO. WILLIAM H.— Asst. Surg., Slst Infantry. 

KEMPER. GENERAL W. H.— Asst. Surg., 17th Inf. 

KENDRICK, WILLIAM H.— Asst. Surg., 19th In- 
fantry. 

KENNEDY, HAMLET K.— Asst. Surg.. 13th Infantry. 

KENNEDY. LEROY H.— Asst. Surg.. 70th Infantry. 

KERSEY, SILAS H.— Asst. Surg., 36th Infantry; Sur- 
geon, 36th Infantry. 

KILGORE, TECUMSEH— Asst. Surg.. 84th Infantry; 
Asst. Surg., 13th Cavalry; Surgeon. 13th Cavalry. 

KILLEN, JAMES— Asst. Surg., 10th Infantry. 

KIMBALL, ABNER D.— Asst. Surg., 48th Infantry. 

KING, HENRY - R.— Asst. Surg., 51st Infantry. 

KING, WILLIAM F.— Asst. Surg., 124th Infantry; 
Surgeon, 147th Infantry. 

KIRBY, HENRY— Surgeon, 84th Infantry. 

KIRKPATRICK, GEORGE W.— Asst. Surg., 72nd In- 
fantry. 

KNIGHT, JAMES H.— Asst. Surg., 3rd Cavalry. 

KRAUTH, FERDINAND— Surgeon, 32nd Infantry. 

KUESTER, CHARLES E.— Asst. Surg., 133rd In- 
fantry; Surgeon, 156th Infantry. 



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KUNKLER, GUSTAVE A.— Surgeon. 32nd Infantry. 

LAMBEY, LOOS— Asst. Surg., 14th Infantry. 

LANSING. SYLVESTER— Asst. Surg., 48th Infantry; 
Asst. Surg., 49th U. S. C. T. 

LARKIX, JOHN B.— Asst. Surg., 17th Infantry; Sur- 
geon, 17th Infantrv. 

LATTIMORE. FINLEY C— Asst. Surg., 6th Infantrv. 

LEAYITT, PHILANDER C— Surgeon, 100th Infantry. 

LEECH. ELLIOTT W.— Asst. Surg., 123rd Infantry. 

LEEDY. JOHN K.— Surgeon, 74th Infantry. 

LEMON. WILLIAM H.— Surgeon. 82nd Infantry. 

LENT, CYRUS Y. N.— Surgeon, 101st Infantry; Sur- 
geon, 138th Infantrv. 

LEWIS, ELI— Surgeon, '65th Infantry. 

LEWIS. SAMUEL B.— Surgeon, 10th Cavalry. 

LIDDALL. JAMES P.— Asst. Surg., 22nd Infantrv. 

LININGER. DANIEL P.— Asst. Surg., 7th Infantry. 

LOMAX. WILLIAM— Surgeon, 12th Infantry. 

MCCARTHY. JOHN F.— Surgeon, 29th Infantry. 

McCHRISTIE. JOHN— Asst. Surg., 9th Cavalrv. 

McCLELLAND, JAMES S.— Surgeon, 135th Infantrv. 

McCLURE. SAMUEL M.— Asst. Surg., 37th Infantry. 

McCOY. GEORGE K.— Asst. Surg., 35th Infantry. 

McCOY, JAMES A. C— Asst. Surg., 49th Infantrv. 

.McCOY, JOHN— Surgeon, 139th Infantry. 

McCREA, THOMAS P.— Surgeon, 10th Infantry. 

McCUNE, GEORGE W.— Surgeon, 14th Infantry. 

McFADDEN. WILLIAM G.— Surgeon, 79th Infantry. 

McGEE, RICHARD— Asst. Surg., 100th Infantry. 

McKINNEY, ASA W.— Surgeon, 31st Infantry. 

McNUTT, JAMES H.— Asst. Surg., 97th Infantrv. 

McPHEETERS, JOHN S.— Surgeon, 23rd Infantrv. 

McPHEETERS. JOSEPH G.— Surgeon, 14th Infantry; 
Surgeon, 33rd Infantry. 

MAGANN, EDWIN W.— Asst. Surg., 9th Cavalry. 

MAGENISS, JOHN— Asst. Surg., 42nd Infantry. 

MANKER, LEWIS— Surgeon, 79th Infantry. 

MARTIN, JAMES W.— Surgeon, 52nd Infantry. 

MARTIN, SAMUEL F.— Asst, Surg., 65th Infantry. 

MARTIN, WILLIAM H.— Surgeon, 10th Infantrv. 

MARTIN, W. W.— Surgeon, 44th Infantry. 

MASON, FERDINAND— Surgeon, 13th Infantry. 

MEEK, JOHN A.— Asst. Surg., 89th Infantry. 

MEEKER, DANIEL— Surgeon, 9th Infantry. 

MEEKER, LYSANDER— Asst. Surg., 128th Infantrv. 

MELSCHEIMER, CHARLES T.— Asst. Surg., 101st In 
fantrv. 



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MENDENHALL, WILLIAM T.— Asst. Surg.. 57th Inf. 

MERCER, WILLIAM M.— Asst. Surg., 152nd Inf. 

MEREDITH, MARION— Asst. Surg., 68th Infantry. 

MERIT, NATHANIEL P.— Asst. Surg., 31st Infantry. 

MESSNER, SAMUEL F.— Asst. Surg., 116th Infantry. 

MILLER, JAMES— Asst. Surg., 30th Infantry. 

MILLS, JAMES R.— Asst. Surg., 47th Infantry. 

MILNER, ISAAC N.— Asst. Surg., 53rd Infantry. 

MITCHELL, ELISHA V.— Surgeon, 91st Infantr'y. 

MITCHELL, ROBERT— Asst. Surg., 38th Infantry. 

MITCHELL, ROBERT S— Asst. Surg., 57th Infantry. 

MOFFITT, JOHN— Asst. Surg., 33rd Infantry. 

MONROE, JASPER R.— Surgeon, 49th Infantr'y. 

MONTEITH, JACOB S.— Asst. Surg., 69th Infantry. 

MONTGOMERY, GEORGE B.— Surgeon, 24th Infantry. 

MORGAN, JAMES W.— Asst. Surg., 31st Infantry. 

MORROW 7 , DOCTOR F.— Asst: Surg., 13th Cavalry. 

MORROW, JAMES L.— Surgeon, 72nd Infantry. 

MOSS, GORDON, A.— Asst. Surg., 87th Infantry; Sur- 
geon, 151st Infantry. 

MULLEN, ALEXANDER J.— Surgeon, 35th Infantry. 

MULLINIX, MASTOX G— Asst. Surg., 149th Infantry. 

MUNFORD, SAMUEL E.— Asst. Surg., 17th Infantry; 
Surgeon, 17th Infantry. 

MURPHY, ALEXANDER D.— Asst. Surg., 97th Inf. 

MURPHY, ALEXAXDER M.— Asst. Surg., 97th In- 
fantry; Surgeon, 97th Infantry. 

MURRAY, RALPH V.— Asst. Surg., 137th Infantry. 

MYERS, SETH F.— Surgeon, 73rd Infantry. 

MYERS, WILLIAM D.— Surgeon, 88th Infantry. 

MYETtS, WILLIAM H.— Asst. Surg., 10th Infantry; 
Surgeon, 30th Infantry. 

XEAT, THOMAS C— Asst. Surg., 144th Infantry. 

XEELY, JOHX M.— Surgeon, 120th Infantry. 

XELSOX, WILLIAM Y.— Asst. Surg., 128th Infantry. 

NEW. GEORGE W.— Surgeon, 7th Infantry. 

XEWLAND, BENJAMIN— Surgeon, 22nd Infantry. 

NICHOLS, JOHN D.— Asst. Surg., 38th Infantry. 

O'FERRELL, ROBERT M.— Surgeon, 40th Infantry. 

OLDS, JOSEPH H.— Asst. Surg., 6th Cavalry. 

O'NEAL, LAUGHLIN— Surgeon, 153rd Infantry. 

ORR, JAMES P.— Asst. Surg., 36th Infantry. 

OSGOOD, HOWARD G.— Asst. Surg., 5th Cavalry. 

PARKS, EDWARD R.— Surgeon, 30th Infantry. 

PARSONS, GEORGE W.— Asst. Surg., 35th Infantry. 

PATTEN, JAMES C— Asst. Surg., 1st Cavalry: Asst. 
Surg., 58th Infantry. 



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PATTERSON. JOHN J.— Asst. Surg., 1st Cavalry. 

PATTISON, GEORGE W.— Surgeon. 130th Infantry. 

PEARCE, JOHN W.— Asst. Surg., 51st Infantry. 

PEARMAN, FRANCIS M.— Surgeon, 30th Infantry. 

PEARSON. CHARLES D.— Surgeon, 49th Infantry; 
Surgeon. 82nd Infantry. 

PECK. SAMUEL W.— Surgeon, 18th Infantry. 

PEGANN, EMANUEL— Surgeon, 155th Infantry. 

PERKINS. CONRAD S.— Asst. Surg., 10th Infantry. 

PHIPPS. JOHN M.— Surgeon. 132nd Infantry. 

PIATT. WILLIAM C— Asst. Surg., 140th Infantry. 

PlCKTHALL. ARTHUR— Asst. Surg.. 49th Infantry. 

PITCHER. STEWART C— Surgeon, 143rd Infantry. 

PLUMMER. ISAAC N.— Asst. Surg., 44th Infantry/ 

POFFENBERGER, ISAIAH— Asst. Surg., 99th In- 
fantry. 

POPE. HENRY E.— Asst. Surg.. 54th Infantry. 

PORTER. JOHN P.— Asst. Surg.. 89th Infantry. 

POTTENGER. WILSON— Asst/ Surg.. 73rd Infantry. 

POTTS, JOHN— Asst. Surg., 40th Infantry. 

PRATT, SAMUEL R.— Surgeon, 12th Cavalry; Sur- 
geon, 87th Infantry. 

PRESTON, ALBERT G.— Surgeon. 55th Infantry. 

PRICHET. JOHN— Surgeon. 57th Infantry. 

PRUNK. DANIEL H.— Asst. Surg., 20th Infantry. 

RALSTON. WILLIAM G.— Surgeon. 81st Infantry. 

READ, EZRA— Surgeon, 11th Cavalry; Surgeon, 21st 
Infantry. 1st Heavv Artillerv. 

REAGAN, AMOS W.— Surgeon, 70th Infantry. 

REAGAN. JESSE— Surgeon, 148th Infantry. 

REED, ALBERT S.— Asst. Surg., 147th Infantry. 

RERICK. JOHN H.— Surgeon. 44th Infantry. 

REYNOLDS, ROBERT C— Asst. Surg., 43rd Infantry. 

RICHARDS. SAMUEL D.— Surgeon, 59th Infantry. 

RICHARDSON, ADAMSON G.— Asst. Surg., 154th In- 
fantry. 

RIFFLE/ JOHN S.— Asst. Surg., 40th Infantry. 

RITTER. JOHN A.— Surgeon, 49th Infantry. 

ROBINSON. JOHN A.— Asst. Surg., 11th Cavalry. 

ROBINSON. LAWSON D.— Asst. Surg., 99th Infantry. 

ROBSON, JOHN R.— Asst. Surg., 1st Cayalry; Asst. 
Surg., 91st Infantry. 

ROBSON. ROBERT— Surgeon, 91st Infantry. 

ROCKWELL. WILLIAM— Asst. Surg., 11th Infantry. 

ROE, JOHN L.— Surgeon, 137th Infantry. 

ROETHER. DANIEL B.— Asst. Surg., 7th Cavalry. 

ROGERS. DUDLEY— Surgeon. 59th Infantry. 



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ROOKER. JAMES I.— Asst. Surg., 11th Infantry. 

ROSE. MADISON H.— Surgeon. 53rd Infantry. 

RUPERT, DELOS W.— Asst. Surg., 30th Infantry. 

RUSSELL, GEORGE H.— Asst. Surg.. 5th Cavalry. 

RUSSELL, ISAAC S.— Asst. Surg., 99th Infantry. 

RUTER. RINALDO R.— Surgeon, 93rd Infantry. 

RUTLEDGE. WILLIAM— Asst. Surg., 2nd Cavalry. 

RYAN. TOWXSEXD— Surgeon, 54th Infantry. 

SAB1N. ELIAS H.— Asst. Surg., 14th Infantry. 

SADLER, JOSEPH J.— Asst. Surg., 16th Infantry. 

SALISBURY. DAVID— Asst. Surg., 128th Infantry. 

SCEARCE. JOHN C— Surgeon, 11th Infantry. 

SCHELL, FREDERICK A.— Asst. Surg., 6th Cavalry. 

SCHMIDT. GUSTAVUS A.— Asst. Surg., 6th Cavalry. 

SCHUSSLER, CHARLES— Surgeon, 6th Infantry. 

SCOTT, WILLIAM— Surgeon, 89th Infantry. 

SCOTT. WILLIAM G.— Asst. Surg.. 8th Cavalry. 

SCUDDER, JOHX A.— Asst. Surg., 65th Infantry. 

SEXTON, MARSHALL— Surgeon, 52nd Infantry. 

SHAFFER, ABNER H.— Surgeon, 75th Infantry. 

SHAPLEY, WILLIAM W.— Surgeon, 42nd Infantry. 

SHELDON, GEORGE W.— Surgeon, 74th Infantry. 

SHERMAX T . MASOX G.— Surgeon, 9th Infantry. 

SHERROD, WILLIAM F.— Surgeon, 21st Infantry. 

SHERWIX. HERMAX H.— Asst. Surg., 152nd Infantry. 

SHORT, WESLEY— Asst. Surg., 26th Infantry. 

SIMMS, JOHX M.— Asst. Surg., 76th Infantry. 

SIMOXSOX, JAMES C— Surgeon, 66th Infantry. 

SLAUGHTER, ROBERT C— Asst. Surg., 25th In- 
fantry; Surgeon, 53rd Infantry. 

SLAUGHTER, WILLIAM W.— Surgeon, 60th Infantry. 

SLAVEXS. ZEXAS L.— Asst. Surg., 115th Infantry. 

SMITH, AXDREW J.— Asst. Surg., 2nd Cavalry. 

SMITH. JOHX W.— Surgeon, 155th Infantry. 

SMITH, WILLIAM R.— Asst. Surg., 70th Infantry. 

SMITH, WILLIAM Z.— Asst. Surg., 49th Infantry. 

SMYDTH, WILLIAM C— Surgeon, 43rd Infantry. 

SMYTHE. GOXSOLVO C— Surgeon, 43rd Infantry. 

SPAIX, ARCHIBALD W.— Asst, Surg., 80th Infantry; 
Asst. Surg., 136th Infantry. 

SPARKS, NATHAN B.— Asst. Surg., 6th Infantry. 

SPEED, EDWARD B.— Asst. Surg., 44th Infantry. 

SPE'XCER, ROBERT— Surgeon, 73rd Infantry, 

SPENCER, WILLIAM— Asst. Surg., 46th Infantry; 
Asst. Surg., 73rd Infantry. 

SPOTTSWOOD, EDMUND T.— Surgeon, 6th Cavalry. 



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SPURRIER, JOHN H.— Asst. Surg., 16th Infantry; 

Surgeon, 123rd Infantry. 
SQUIRE. WILLIAM B.— Asst. Surg., 14th Infantry. 
ST. CLAIR, OWEN— Asst. Surg., 142nd Infantry. 
STEARNS, ELIAS P.— Asst. Surg., 72nd Infantry. 
STEWART, WILLIAM J.— Asst. Surg., 47th Infantry. 
STILLWELL, JOSEPH A.— Surgeon, 22nd Infantry. 
STUKEY, JOHN M.— Asst. Surg., 59th Infantry. 
SWAFFORD, BENJAMIN F.— Surgeon, 11th Cavalry. 
SWARTZ, DAVID J.— Asst. Surg., 100th Infantry. 
SWEENY, THOMAS J.— Asst. Surg., 43rd Infantry. 
SWEEZY, WILLIAM C— Surgeon, 140th Infantry. 
TAGGART, JOHN F.— Surgeon, 4th Cavalry. 
TAYLOR, ALFRED B.— Asst. Surg., 12th Infantry. 
TAYLOR, DANIEL W.— Surgeon, 34th Infantry. 
TAYLOR, WILLIAM D.— Surgeon, 42nd Infantry. 
TEAL, NORMAN— Asst. Surg., 88th Infantry. 
THOMAS, CHARLES L.— Surgeon, 25th Infantry. 
THOMAS, ELIAS B.— Asst. Surg., 4th Cavalry. 
THOMAS, JAMES H.— Asst. Surg., 117th Infantry. 
THOMAS, JOHN H.— Asst. Surg., 49th Infantry. 
THOMPSON, JOHN C— Surgeon, 11th Infantry. 
TILFORD, JOHN H.— Asst. Surg., 79th Infantry. 
TILLSON, HOSEA— Asst. Surg, and Surgeon, 57th In- 
TILMAN, JONATHAN R.— Asst. Surg., 60th Infantry. 

fantry. 
TODD, ROBERT N.— Surgeon, 26th Infantry. 
TODD, WILLIAM A.— Asst. Surg., 11th Infantry. 
TOLERTON, JAMES— Surgeon, 129th Infantry. 
TORBET, GEORGE A.— Asst. Surg., 26th Infantry. 
TRIPLETT, CHARLES E.— Surgeon, 87th Infantry. 
TWIFORD, WILLIS H.— Surgeon, 27th Infantry. 
TYNER, SAMUEL L.— Asst. Surg., 42nd Infantry. 
UNDERHILL, JOSHUA W.— Surgeon, 46th Infantry. 
VAILE, JOEL— Surgeon, 2nd Cavalry. 
VAN VORIS, FLAVIUS J.— Asst. Surg., 86th Infantry. 
VINCENT, HENRY C— Asst. Surg., 83rd Infantry. 
VINCENT, JEREMIAH K.— Asst. Surg., 33rd Infantry. 
VOYLES, DAVID W.— Surgeon, 66th Infantry. 
WALKER, AUGUSTUS C— Asst. Surg., 63rd Infantry. 
WALKER, JOHN T.— Surgeon, 25th Infantry. 
WALLACE, JAMES P.— Asst. Surg., 150th Infantry. 
WALTON, ALLEN M.— Surgeon, 13th Cavalry; Asst. 

Surg., 86th Infantry. 
WASHBURN, ISRAEL B.— Surgeon, 46th Infantry. 
WATERMAN, LUTHER D.— Surgeon, 8th Cavalry. 
WEAVER, SAMUEL M.— Asst. Surg., 83rd Infantry. 



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WEBB, WILLIAM A.— Asst. Surg., 70th Infantry. 

WEDDINGTON, SAMUEL C— Asst. Surg., 147th In- 
fantry. 

WEIR, ANDREW N.— Surgeon, 6th Cavalry. 

WELBORN, WILLIAM P.— Surgeon, 80th Infantry. 

WELLS, JAMES C— Asst. Surg., 50th Infantry. 

WELMAN, RICHMOND M.— Surgeon, 9th Cavalry. 

WHITAKER, ELI D.— Surgeon, 38th Infantry. 

WHITE, ARTHUR— Asst. Surg., 25th Infantry. 

WHITE, JACOB S.— Surgeon, 34th Infantry. 

WHITE, JAMES B.— Asst. Surg., 75th Infantry. 

WHITE, JOHN M.— Asst. Surg., 70th Infantry. 

WHITEHALL, ALEXANDER L.— Asst. Surg., 60th. 
ITESEI 
fantry. 

WHITESELL, PHILIP P.— Surgeon, 101st Infantry. 

WIDMER, JOHN F. B.— Asst. Surg., 49th Infantry. 

WILES, WILLIAM V.— Asst. Surg., 85th Infantry. 

WILLIAMSON, ELEAZER— Asst. Surg., 130th In- 
fantry. 

WILLIAMSON, ROBERT A.— Surgeon, 10th Infantry. 

WILLIAMSON, THOMAS W. C— Asst. Surg., 24th In- 
fantry. 

WILSON, ISAAC— Asst. Surg., 137th Infantry. 

WILSON, JACOB B.— Asst. Surg., 123rd Infantry. 

WILSON, JAMES— Asst. Surg., 11th Infantry. 

WINANS, RICHARD— Asst. Surg., 17th Infantry. 

WISHARD, JOSEPH M.— Surgeon, 5th Cavalry! 

WITT, WILLIAM B.— Surgeon, 69th Infantry. 

WOLF. HARVEY S.— Surgeon, 81st Infantry. 

WONSETLER, GIDEON— Asst. Surg., 15th Infantry. 

WOOD, JAMES A.— Asst. Surg., 12th Cavalry. 

WOODEN, JOHN L.— Surgeon, 68th Infantry. 

W 7 00DS, CALVIN J.— Surgeon, 19th Infantry. 

WOODS, DANIEL L.— Asst. Surg., 21st Infantry, 1st 
Heavy Artillery; Asst. Surg., 138th Infantry; 
Asst. Surg., 153rd Infantry. 

WOOLEN, GREEN V.— Asst. Surg., 27th Infantry. 

WRIGHT, IVY E.— Asst. Surg., 116th Infantry. 

YOU ART, JOHN M.— Asst. Surg., 15th Infantry; 
Surgeon, 15th Infantry. 

SURGEONS IN COLORED REGIMENTS. 

EASTMAN, JOSEPH— Asst. Surg., 44th U. S. C. T. 
STRONG, JOHN T.— Surgeon, 44th U. S. C. T. 



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THOMPSON, JAMES L.— Surgeon, 4th U. S. Heavy 

Artillery. 
WEIST, JACOB R.— Surgeon, 1st U. S. C. T. 

SURGEONS IN MINUTE MEN REGIMENTS. 

"Late on the evening of July 8, 18G3, intelligence 
was received at Indianapolis, that a rebel force, esti- 
mated to be six thousand cavalry, with four pieces 
of artillery, under command of Gen. John H. Morgan, 
had crossed the Ohio river near Mauckport, and was 
moving on Cory don. Ind. Governor Morton at once 
issued a patriotic call upon the citizens of the State, 
to leave their various occupations and organize for 
defense. Under this call, within the short space of 
forty-eight hours, sixty-five thousand men had ten- 
dered their services. Of this force, thirteen regiments 
and one batallion were organized specialty for this 
emergency, and the regiments designated numerically, 
from One Hundred and Second to One Hundred and 
Fourteenth, inclusive, the batallion being assigned to 
the One Hundred and Seventh Regiment." — Report of 
Adjutant General of Indiana, Vol. iii, p. 189. 

The usual number of surgeons were not supplied 
to these regiments. The}' were in the service but a 
few days. 

BOUXELL, M4TTTEW H.— Sursreon, 102nd Regiment. 
BUCK. ROBERT H.— Surgeon 103d Regiment. 
HARRISOX, THOMAS H.— Asst. Surg.. 102nd Reg. 
THOMAS, L. C— Surgeon, 104th Regiment. 
McCLAIN. JAMES— Asst. Surg., 104th Regiment. 
WHEELDOX. JOHX— Asst. Surg.. 104th Regiment. 
SPURRIER. JOHX H.— Surgeon. 105th Regiment. 
KELLOG. XORMAX P.— Asst. Surg., 105th Regiment. 
CHITWOOD. JOSHUA— Asst. Surg;, 106th Regiment. 
PARVIX. THEOPHILUS— Surgeon^ 107th Regiment. 
CONSTANT. JOHX H.— Surgeon, 108th Re^ment. 
MOORE, AXDERSON M.— Asst. Surg., 108th Reg. 
MAY, WILLIS L.— Asst. Surg., 108th Regiment. 
JOHXSOX. JARVIS J.— Surgeon, 109th Regiment. 
HALL. DAXIEL D.— Surgeon, 111th Regiment. 
BEARD, FERDIXAXD W.— Surgeon, 112th Regiment. 
BARE. ADDISOX W.— Asst. Surg., 112th Regiment. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 203 

PARMERLE'E. H. M.— Surgeon, 113th Regiment. 
WOOD. MEREDITH— Asst. Surg., 113th Regiment. 

NOTE. — No medical officers were supplied to the 
110th and 114th regiments. 

Medical Officers from Indiana Commis- 
sioned by the President, Volunteers, 
1861-65. 

John S. Bobbs, surgeon. 
William D. Stewart, surgeon. 
William C. Thompson, surgeon. 
Charles S. Frink, surgeon. 
James M. Study, assistant surgeon. 

REGULAR ARMY. 

Charles McDougall, born in Ohio, entered 
service from Indiana as assistant surgeon, July 
13, 1832; major surgeon, July 7, 1838: lieuten- 
ant colonel and assistant medical purveyor, July 
28, 1866; retired Feb. 22, 1869; brevet colonel, 
Nov. 24, 1864, and brigadier general, March 
13, 1865, for faithful and meritorious service 
during the civil war. Died July 25, 1885. — 
Historical Eegister and Dictionary of the IT. S. 
Army, Heitman, vol. i, p. 663. 

John Moore, born in Indiana, entered service 
as assistant surgeon, June 29, 1853 ; major sur- 
geon, June 11, 1862 ; lieutenant colonel, assistant 
medical purveyor, Oct. 8, 1883; brigadier gen- 
eral, surgeon general, Nov. 18, 1886; retired 
Aug. 16, 1890. Brevet lieutenant colonel. Sept. 
1, 1864, for gallant and meritorious service dur- 
ing the Atlanta campaign, and colonel, March 
13, 1865, for faithful and meritorious services 
during the war. — lb., p. 723. 



204 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

George Winfield Stipp, born in Virginia. Was 

tirst lieutenant 4th 111. Inf. from July 4. 1846, 
to Aug. 30, 1846. Appointed surgeon volunteers 
Sept. 81, 1861; lieut. eol. medical inspector, 
March 12, 1863, mustered out Oct. 31, 1865. 
Died Aug. 22. 1879. Formerly lived and prac- 
ticed at Indianapolis. — lb., p. 926. 

VOLUNTEER NAVY* — ACTING ASSISTANT SURGEON N 
(CIVIL WAR). 

Philip H. Barton. 
George F. Beasley. 
William Commons. 
David G. Curtis. 
William C. Foster. 
Thomas F. Leech. 
Jacob J. Smith. 

SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. 

Indiana equipped and sent out five regiments for 
this war; and furnished them with five regimental 
surgeons, eleven regimental assistant surgeons, three 
surgeons in the volunteer army appointed by the 
President, and fifteen hospital stewards, making a 
total of thirty-four medical officers. An alphabetical 
list of their names is given: 

BARCUS, PAUL J.— Asst. Surg., 158th Regiment, 
Indiana Infantry. 

BARXETT, CHARLES E.— Asst. Surg., 157th Regi- 
ment, Indiana Infantry. 

BARXETT, WALTER W— Surgeon, 157th Regiment, 
Indiana Infantrv. 

BUEHLER, EUGENE— Asst. Surg., 160th Regiment, 
Indiana Infantrv. 



* William Maxwell Wood, rank captain, entered the Navy. 
May 16, 1829. He was a native of Maryland, from which 
state he was appointed, but claimed his residence in 
Indiana. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 205 

CHARLTON, FRED R.— Surgeon, 158th Regiment, 
Indiana Infantry. 

DAVIS, WILLIAM S.— Asst. Surg., 159th Regiment, 
Indiana Infantry. 

FOXWORTHY, FRANK W.— Asst. Surg., 160th Regi- 
ment, Indiana Infantry. 

GARSTANG, REGINALD W— Asst. Surg., 157th 
Regiment, Indiana Infantry. 

GERRISH, MILLARD F.— Asst. Surg., 161st Regi- 
ment, Indiana Infantry. 

HAWKINS, EUGENE— Asst. Surg., 159th Regiment, 
Indiana Infantry. 

JONES, HOMER I.— Asst. Surg., 158th Regiment, 
Indiana Infantry. 

KYLE, JOHN J.— Surgeon, 160th Regiment, Indiana 
Infantrv. 

SIVER, EMMETT L.— Surgeon, 157th Regiment, 
Indiana Infantry. 

SMITH, WICLIFFE— Surgeon, 161st Regiment, Indi- 
ana Infantry. 

STUNKARD, THOMAS C— Surgeon, 159th Regiment, 
Indiana Infantry. 

WILSON, JAMES— Asst. Surg., 161st Regiment, Indi- 
ana Infantry. 

LIST OF SURGEONS APPOINTED BY THE PRESI- 
DENT IN THE VOLUNTEER ARMY OF 
THE UNITED STATES. 

ENGLISH, CALVIN H.— Major and Brigade Surgeon. 
KIMBALL, THOMAS C— Major and Chief Surgeon. 
PEYTON, DAVID C— Major and Brigade Surgeon. 

HOSPITAL STEWARDS. 

ESPEY, JAMES G— 161st Regiment, Indiana Infantry. 

HAWKINS, ROBERT W.— 159th Regiment, Indiana 
Infantry. 

LANGDON, HARRY K.— 159th Regiment, Indiana In- 
fantry. 

LEWIS, JOHN I.— 161st Regiment, Indiana Infantry. 

MOORE, HARRY S.— 158th Regiment, Indiana In- 
fantry. 

MOORE, HARVEY A.— 157th Regiment, Indiana In- 
fantry. 

NEWLAND, HARROD C— 158th Regiment, Indiana 
Infantry. 



206 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

PFAFF, JOHN A., 160th Regiment, Indiana Infantry. 

RATHEEtT, WILLIAM II. -161st Regiment, Indiana 
Infantry. 

SCHULTZ, GUY A.— 157th Regiment, Indiana In- 
fantry. 

SHELL, *OGDE"X G — 157th Regiment, Indiana In- 
fantry. 

SOMMER, EDGAR L.— 160th Regiment, Indiana In- 
fantry. 

STARRETT. WALTER K.— 160th Regiment, Indiana 
Infantry. 

TOWXSEXD, TE"RRY M.— 159th Regiment, Indiana 
Infantry. 

WRIGHT, CHARLES E.— 158th Regiment, Indiana In- 
fantry. 



CHAPTER XX 



Medical History of Madison County. 

Dr. Jonas Stewart, of Anderson, a physician 
well qualified for the task, has kindly furnished 
me the following interesting medical history of 
Madison County: 

Madison County was first settled by white men 
in 1820, four years after the admission of the 
state into the Federal Union. The first settle- 
ment was at Pendleton, near the falls of Fall 
Creek, in the south part of the county. About 
one year after the above date, in 1821, a settle- 
ment was made at Anderson on White River. 
Within a few years settlements were also made at 
Chesterfield, Hamilton and Perkinsville, on 
White River, at Huntsville and Xew Columbus, 
on Fall Creek, and later, also, at Fishersburg, on 
Stony Creek, near the western boundary, and at 
Moonsville, on Big Kilbuck Creek, about ten 
miles north of Anderson. The country north of 
White River remained for the greater part, an 
unbroken forest for twenty or thirty years after 
the forming of the settlements above named, in 
south half of the county. 

The county was organized November 10, 1823, 
and the county seat located at. Pendleton, the 
oldest and largest settlement, where it remained 
until 1836, when it was removed to Anderson, 
which was a more central location. It was not 



•JOS MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

until about this time that settlements were made 
at Alexandria and Elwood. and still later, at 
Frankton and Summitville. 

The first physician to locate in the county for 
the practice of his profession was Dr. Lewis 
Bordwell. who located at Pendleton about the 
time the county was organized. He is mentioned 
in the early chronicles of the county, and char- 
acterized as a "pleasant, genial gentleman, who 
occasionally imbibed too freely of ardent spirits, 
and when intoxicated, sometimes boasted of his 
success as a practitioner, decking that he had 
never lost a patient." He practiced at Pendleton 
only two or three years, and removed to Iowa, 
where he died. He was followed at Pendleton by 
Drs. John L. and Corydon Richmond, the former 
of whom receives more extended notice elsewhere 
in these sketches. A few years later, Dr. Edwin 
Fussell and Dr. M. G. Walker located here, and 
still later came also the brothers, John H. and 
Ward Cook. Both Dr. Fussell and Dr. Walker 
receive honorable mention in Forkner and Dy- 
son's History of Madison County, in connection 
with the mobbing of Hon. Frederick Douglass at 
Pendleton in 1843.* Dr. Walker is credited with 
saving the life of Mr. Douglass on that occasion, 
and Dr. Fussell with taking him into his house, 
and rendering surgical aid to the injured man. 

The first physician to locate at Anderson was 
a Dr. Burt, of whom little is now known. It is 
said, however, fchat he was both doctor and school 
teacher, and that he was a small man, and slightly 



* This mobbing of Mr. Douglass occurred on Sept. 16, 
1843.— G. W. H. K. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 209 

lame. He remained in Anderson two years, from 
1827 to 1829. [I think this is Dr. Dickinson 
Burt, the first physician, also, to locate in Dela- 
ware County. See p. 89— G. W. H. K.] 

A Dr. Pegg also located in Anderson in 1828, 
but still less is known of him than of his pre- 
decessor. His residence in the village was of two 
years' duration, when he was followed by Dr. 
Euddell, in 1830. The last-named physician re- 
mained seven years and then removed to Broad 
Ripple, in Marion County, near the city of In- 
dianapolis. In the meantime Dr. Henry Wyman 
located at Anderson, in 1831, and became the 
"Nestor" of the medical profession of the county, 
where he was probably the most prominent physi- 
cian for a period of thirty years. He will be 
noticed elsewhere in these sketches. Other early 
physicians of Anderson, of whom no definite in- 
formation can now be obtained, were Dr. Car- 
mean, Dr. E. E. Eoe, and Dr. Andrew Eobb. The 
first physician at Chesterfield was a Dr. Henry; 
he located there in 1828. Soon after, we find the 
name of Dr. Kynett, probably the Dr. William 
Kynett later found at Fishersburg. We also find 
evidence that Drs. Balingall and Preston of Mid- 
dletown, in Henry County, made regular trips for 
a considerable period, and ministered to the sick 
of the infant settlement of Chesterfield, but 
neither of them was ever located in Madison 
County. Dr. George W. Godwin located at Ches- 
terfield in the early thirties, but later removed to 
Yorktown, in Delaware County. Dr. David Dun- 
ham located in the country northwest of Chester- 
field, in 1834. We also find that a Dr. Davis 



210 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

arrived there in 1847. He completes the list of 
pioneer physicians of the village. Dr. William 
Goodell located at Hamilton, about six miles west 
of Anderson, in 1825. ]STo other facts in his his- 
tory have been obtained. 

The first physician at Huntsville was a Dr. 
McCain, who was both physician and merchant. 
He had as his successors, Drs. John Hunt and 
Joseph Weeks, both mentioned later, each in his 
proper place. Dr. John Home was the first to 
locate at New Columbus. This event occurred in 
1840. He removed to Middletown in Henry 
County, and subsequently to Yorktown, in Dela- 
ware County, where he died. He was followed 
at Xew Columbus by Dr. Hildreth, in 1842, and 
Dr. W. B. Bair, in 1844. Other early physicians 
of New Columbus were Dr. Clark, Dr. Smiley 
and Dr. Barry. 

The first to locate at Fishersburg were the 
brothers, Drs. James and John Barrett; this was 
in 1840. Later in the same year, Dr. William 
Kynett located there. These were followed by 
Dr. Thomas in 1848, Drs. John Davis and John 
Williams, in 1850, and a little later by Dr. 
Thomas Carr. Dr. Thomas Douglass located at 
Perkinsville in 1840, he being the first in that 
village, and its leading physician for many 
years. 

In the same year Dr. Robert Douglass located 
at the site of the present city of Elwood, although 
the town, first named Quincy, was not laid out 
until 1853, and did not receive the name of El- 
wood until 1869. About this time, also, a Dr. 
McXear located at Moonsville, on Big Kilbuck 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 211 

Creek. The first physician at Alexandria was 
Dr. W. F. Spence, who came to the county in 
1839. After a few years he removed to Jones- 
boro, in Grant county, where he died. He was 
followed by Dr. Cyrus Westerfield and Dr. David 
Perry, and a few years later, by Drs. S. B. and 
Leonard Harriman. Dr. S. B. Harriman re- 
moved to Eichmond, Indiana, where he ended his 
career, and Dr. Leonard Harriman die.d in Ster- 
ling, Kansas, in the last decade of the nineteenth 
century. 

We have thus seen that the location of the first 
physicians, at Alexandria, El wood, Perkins ville, 
Fishersburg, and New Columbus, all occurred 
about the same year, at least, within twelve 
months, of the years 1839 and 1840. This was 
incident to the large increase of population dur- 
ing those years, most probably induced by the 
work on the Indiana Central Canal, then in con- 
struction but never completed. 

The first physician at Frankton was Dr. John 
M. Laughlin, but he did not arrive until 1854. 
He was followed by Dr. Philip P. Patterson, who 
married the widow of Dr. Laughlin, and succeed- 
ed also to his practice. Other early physicians of 
Frankton were Drs. Reuben Harvey, W. M. 
Sharp, and a Dr. Young. There was no physi- 
cian at Summitville until 1870, when Dr. C. V. 
Garrell located there. He was followed by Drs. 
John Wright and M. L. Cranfield. During the 
decade from 1870 to 1880, Dr. Wm. J. Morgan 
practiced at Gilman on the border of Delaware 
County. Dr. Morgan was a charter member of 



212 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

the present Madison County Medical Society. 
Died October 13. 1896. 

The above mentioned villages include all. with- 
in the boundaries of Madison County, except 
Markleville and Ingalls. The latter is a new 
town and has no medical history. The former 
probably has a history but I have not been able 
to obtain it. I find, however, in some of the earlv 
records the names of a Dr. Wear, Dr. William 
Hendricks. Dr. William Swain, and Dr. J. C. 
Smith, but no further information seems to be 
obtainable. 

The names of other deceased physicians of 
Madison County, of whom I have succeeded in 
obtaining some definite information, with brief 
sketches of some of the more prominent of them 
are given alphabetically in the succeeding pages. 

Prominence is not invariably based on esti- 
mated ability, alone, but also on length of period 
of service, or the number of years they practiced 
their profession in Madison County. 

ARDERY, OSCAR.— Anderson (1859-1897). S. T. 
1898, 380, 381. 

BAIR, W. B.— New Columbus (18— -1863). Lo- 
cated in Madison County in 1844. Practiced eighteen 
years. Was an active member of the first Madison 
County Medical Society and was its treasurer from its 
organization until his death. 

BALLENGER, L. P.— Anderson (1851-1884). 

BECK, JOHN.— Elwood (1809-1882). 

BECK, THOMAS S.— Elwood (1843-1885). Son of 
preceding Dr. Beck. Native of Ohio. Practiced in 
Elwood fifteen years. 

BRANDON, JOSEPH FRANCIS.— Anderson (1835- 
1888). Practiced several years at Perkinsville. Re- 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 213 

moved to Anderson and engaged in drug business, but 
remained a member of the Madison County Medical 
Society. 

BRUNT, SAMUEL.— Summitville (1849-1883). 

BURR, CHANCEY S.— Anderson (1840-1905). Born 
in Middletown, Indiana, January 10, 1840. Died in 
Chicago, Illinois, June 4, 1905. Graduated at Long 
Island College Hospital, 1865. Served as surgeon in 
the army last year of Civil War. Practiced his pro- 
fession fifteen years in Anderson, ten years in Mitchell, 
South Dakota, and fourteen years in the city of Chi- 
cago. He was the first mayor of Mitchell, South 
Dakota. 

CARTER, D. M.— Anderson (1834-1893). Prac- 
ticed a number of years in Anderson. Was a member 
of the first Madison County Medical Society and was 
its treasurer after the death of Dr. W. B. Bair. He 
removed to Modoc in Randolph County, where he died. 
Is buried at Winchester. 

CALLOWAY, BENIAH T.— Elwood (1824-1899). 
Born in Milton, Indiana, January 23, 1824. Died in 
Elwood, Indiana, November 30, 1899. Located in 
Alexandria in 1849; remained only one year, then 
removed to Elwood where he practiced thirty-nine 
years. He was retired ten years before his death. 

CHANNING, WILLIAM S. — Pendleton (1851- 
1906). S. T. 1907, 489. 

COOK, DANIEL.— Fishersburg (1826-1902). Dr. 
Cook practiced medicine in Madison County about 
forty years, part of this time at Markleville. 

COOK, JOHN H.— Pendleton (1802-1864). Born in 
Monroe County, Virgina, April 27, 1802. Died of 
apoplexy, at Pendleton, November 30, 1863. Educated 
at Maxwell Academy in East Tennessee. Graduated 
in medicine at University of Louisville. He was one 
of the early specialists in diseases of the eye and ear. 
In this specialty he attained such prominence as to 
be called to many of the larger cities of this and 
other states. 




W /^^^ t '<^C. Otfl 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 215 

He was a fluent public speaker and a ready debater; 
entered politics and was elected representative in the 
legislature in 1836. He rendered valuable assistance 
in securing the first railway through the county, 
giving both time and money. He also served one 
term as a member of the Board of Trustees of the 
State Blind Asylum, receiving his appointment from 
Gov. Joseph A. Wright. 

COOK, THOMAS E. — Perkinsville ( 1819 - 1876 ) . 
Born in South Carolina. Practiced twelve years in 
county. 

COOK, WARD.— Pendleton (1808-1894). Dr. Ward 
Cook was a younger brother of Dr. John H. Cook, 
above mentioned. Born in Monroe county, Virgina 
(now West Virginia), October 9, 1808. Died of pneu- 
monia, at Pendleton, Indiana, December 24, 1894. He 
attended the schools of his native county, and spent 
two years at Maxwell Academy in Tennessee, after 
which he taught school and studied under private 
tutors. He came to Indiana on horseback, traveling 
five hundred miles in thirteen days. He had studied 
medicine with his other studies in his old home, and 
soon after his arrival in Pendleton, he was examined 
and licensed to practice, by a district medical society 
convened there. His license was dated October 20, 
1832. From 1835 to 1849 he practiced in Virginia, 
being located at Red Sulphur Springs in his native 
county. During this period, however, he attended 
medical college and graduated from the Cincinnati 
College of Medicine in 1839. He returned to Pendle- 
ton March 24, 1849, and resided there until his death. 
He practiced medicine more than sixty years, nearly 
fifty of which were in Madison County. He wrote 
many valuable medical papers, one on "Laceration of 
the Perineum in Parturition." Trans. 1892, 142. 

Dr. Cook was a conscientious and skilled physician 
and a faithful member of the local and state medical 
societies, by which he was frequently honored. He 
was a fine type of the "gentleman of the old school," 
and a consistent christian, having been a member of 



216 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

the M. E, Church for nearly fifty years. S. T. 1895, 

-4 08. 

COOPER. W. B.— New Columbus (1828-1868). 
Began to practice medicine in Madison County, but 
after a few years removed to Greenfield, Hancock 
County, where he was eminently successful. 

CORNELIUS. W. W.— Chesterfield (1822-1892). 
Born in Xew York state, October 15, 1822. Died at 
Daleville, Indiana, 1892. He located at Chesterfield 
February 28, 1852, and was engaged in practice there 
until the spring of 1804. a period of twelve years. He 
then removed to Daleville in Delaware county. 

CRAMPTON, JESSE PUGH. — Anderson (1818- 
1866). Born in Ohio. Removed to Anderson in 1852. 
He practiced medicine in Anderson fourteen years. 
Part of the time was also engaged in the drug trade. 

DEHORITY. J. M.— Elwood (1815-1885). Located 
at Elwood in the early forties. Entered general prac- 
tice of medicine and became wealthy. For the last 
fifteen years of his life, was engaged in the mercan- 
tile and banking business. 

DOUGLASS, ROBERT. — Elwood ( 1816 - 1863 ) . 
Practiced medicine in Tipton three years, Xew Lan- 
caster three years, and in Elwood about twelve years. 
Was the first physician at Elwood. 

DOUGLAS, THOMAS. — Perkinsville (1818-1863). 
Was the first physician at Perkinsville and practiced 
there twelve years. Came from Ohio. 

DUNHAM, DAVID.— Chesterfield (1762-1840). 

DUNHAM, VALENTINE. — Chesterfield (1812- 
1882). Located two miles northwest of Chesterfield. 
Practiced medicine there for forty-five years. 

EBERT, WILLIAM H. — Osceola ( 1820 - 1896 ) . 
Practiced in Madison County thirty-four years. 

FAIRFIELD, WILLIAM J. — Anderson (1853- 
1909). Dr. Fairfield was born in Harrison, Ohio, 
January 20, 1853. Was drowned in the Gunnison 
River in Colorado, June 27, 1909. Received a high 
school and partial college education. He attended 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 217 

the Medical Department of the University of Michi- 
gan two years and Bellevue Medical College, New 
York, two years. Graduated at the latter institution 
in 1878. He was house surgeon of the Battle Creek 
Sanitarium several years and practiced twenty years 
in Anderson. He was a "chalk talk" lecturer of no 
mean ability, and sometimes employed his talent in 
this line for the edification of medical societies. Re- 
moved to Delta, Colorado, in 1907. Early in 1909 he 
was appointed a member of the advisory board of 
the University of Colorado. 

FISHER, H. G.— Fishersburg (1836-1876). 

FORKNER, THOMAS B.— Florida (1839-1869). 

FREE, CYRENIUS.— Prosperity (1828-1884). Dr. 
Free was a charter member of Madison County Medi- 
cal Society. 

FRITZ, PERRY L.— Alexandria (1865-1899). S. T. 
1900, 323. 

FUSSELL, BARTHOLOMEW. — Pendleton (1794- 
1871). A native of Pennsylvania. Returned' to his 
native state. Is said to have weighed about four hun- 
dred pounds. 

FUSSELL, EDWIN B.— Pendleton (1813-1882). 

GARRETSON, J. M. — Perkinsville (1821-1886). 
Born in Tennessee. Practiced in county thirty years. 

GODWIN, GEORGE W.— Chesterfield (1799-1865). 
Removed to Yorktown in Delaware County. 

GUYSINGER, JOHN S.— Florida (1816-1906). A 
native of Pennsylvania. Died in Pendleton, Indiana, 
in 1906, at the age of ninety years. He practiced his 
profession in Henry and Madison Counties about sixty 
years; the first third of this period was in Henry 
County. He was three times married and reared a 
family of fifteen children. He retired from practice 
and moved to Pendleton a few years before his death. 

HOCKETT, ZIMRL— Anderson (1830-1890). Prac- 
ticed in Anderson twenty-five years. 

HODGES, FRED JENNER. — Anderson (1865- 
1901). Practiced in Anderson eight or nine years. 
Removed to Ashland, Wisconsin, where he died. 



218 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

HORNE, JOHN.— New Columbus (1814-1880). Was 
the first physician of New Columbus. He located 
there in 1840. Removed to Middletown and subse- 
quently to Yorktown, Delaware County. S. T. 1881, 
240. R. M. of Ind., Dist. 6, p. 42. 

HUNT. JOHN.— Anderson (1817-1895). Was born 
in Wayne County. Indiana, and died at Springdale, 
Arkansas, July 23, 1895. As a boy he came with 
his parents to Madison County as pioneers. They gave 
their name to the village where they settled — Hunts- 
ville. Began the practice of medicine there in 1839. 
Some years later he removed to Anderson and subse- 
quently to a farm in LaFayette township, but in each 
of these locations his field of practice covered the 
larger portion of the county. Dr. Hunt was one of 
the most prominent physicians of his part of the state 
for more than thirty years. He was a man of splen- 
did physique and unusual intelligence. His advice as 
a physician was widely sought. 

He was also a politician of local reputation, being 
for many years the leader of his party in the county. 
It was said that he could sit on the stone steps in 
front of his office on the public square and dictate the 
nominations made by his party for all the county 
offices. He served as state senator from Madison and 
Hancock counties in the legislative session of 1851 
to 1853. He was also treasurer of Madison County, 
1860 to 1862. Was present at the Medical Convention 
at Indianapolis, June 6, 1849. 

HUNT, JOHN" WALTER.— Anderson (1850-1904). 
Nephew of preceding. Practiced at Alexandria for a 
number of years, then removed to Anderson, where he 
enjoyed a large practice until his death. 

HUNT, WILLIAM A.— Anderson (1822-1889). Dr. 
William A. Hunt was a brother of John Hunt and 
father of preceding. He was a small boy when he 
removed with his parents from Wayne county, where 
he was born, to their new home at Huntsville. He 
first taught school, then studied medicine and grad- 
uated at the Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio. 
For many years he lived on an elegant farm four 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 219 

miles north of Anderson, where he built up a large 
practice. He removed to Anderson in 1868 and, with 
a short interval in the drug business, he continued 
ill practice until a few days before his death. This 
was caused by pneumonia, after a short illness. Dr. 
Hunt was a competent physician, well informed, not 
only in medical, but also in general literature. He 
was a great reader and a logical thinker. Was also 
an interested student of natural science, especially of 
geology. He was also a ready writer and frequently 
wrote for the local press. He was a steadfast friend 
of medical societies and was president of the first 
Madison County Medical Society during the entire 
period of its existence. S. T. 1889, 214. 

HUSTON, A. S.— Anderson (1848-1894). Practiced 
in Pendleton and Anderson eighteen years. 

INLOW, JAMES E. — Alexandria ( 1841 - 1899 ) . 
Practiced thirty years in Madison County. 

JONES, THOMAS N. — Anderson (1823-1875). 
Practiced twenty years in Anderson, having previously 
practiced at Pendleton and in Hancock County. He 
was one of the most prominent physicians of Ander- 
son, a successful practitioner and quite popular with 
the people, but less so with the profession, as he was 
aggressive in his manner and rather opposed to medi- 
cal societies. He was a local politician and repre- 
sented his county in the legislature, having been 
elected as a member of that body in 1872. He served 
as assistant surgeon of the 2d Regiment Indiana 
Cavalry and later as surgeon of the 130th Indiana 
Infantry during the Civil War. 

JONES, J. M.— Lapel (1838-1889). Practiced in 
Madison county twenty-three years. 

JORDAN, DEWITT.— Anderson (1871-1901). S. T. 
1902, 416. 

KILGORE, TECUMSEH.— Chesterfield (1839-1876). 
Practiced medicine at Chesterfield about ten years. 
Served in the Civil War as assistant surgeon 84th 
Indiana Volunteer Infantry and later as assitant sur- 
geon and also as surgeon of the 13th Indiana Cavalry. 



220 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA, 

McCLENAHAN, THOMAS J. — Anderson (1822- 
1S56). Born in Baltimore. Came to Anderson some 
time in the forties. Was a member of the Indiana 
State Medical Society, early in its history. 

McMAHAN, W. V.— New Columbus (1846-1879). 
Practiced in the county ten years, part of this at 
Summitville. 

MENEFEE, E. H. — Anderson (1838-1879). A 
native of .Virginia. Came to Anderson about 1860. 
He served as secretary of the first Madison County 
Medical Society from 1862 to 1867. 

MITCHELL, T. G.— Pendleton (1827-1903). 

XUZUM, D. P.— Elwood (1842-1895). Born in 
Ohio. Practiced in Grant County from 1878 to 1886 
and at Elwood from 1886 to 1895. 

O'CONNOR, JOHN Z.— Elwood (1868-1898). S. T. 
1898, 387. 

PARIS, WILLIAM.— Prosperity, (18— -1865). A 
native of Kentucky. Came to Indiana in 1825 and was 
one of the pioneers. Was both physician and preacher. 

PARIS, ABSALOM.— Hamilton (1812-1870). 

PATTERSON, PHILIP P.— Frankton (18— -1866). 

PERRY, JOHN W— Alexandria (1819-1895). Born 
in Logan county, Virginia, November 29, 1819. Died 
near Alexandria, Indiana, June 18, 1895. Came with 
his parents to Madison County in 1826. Located at 
Alexandria in 1842. Was in partnership with Dr. 
W. F. Spence, Alexandria's first physician. He prac- 
ticed medicine in Madison County fifty-three years. 
For forty-eight years he lived on a farm, but was in 
active practice. He was a member of both county and 
state medical societies. 

PRATT, JOEL.— New Columbus (1826-1872). A 
native of Massachusetts. Came to Madison County in 
1848. Practiced here over twenty years. 

PUGH, JOSEPH.— Alexandria (1820-1895). Prac- 
ticed seventeen years. Served as treasurer of Madison 
County. 

PUGH, JOSEPH, Jr.— Alexandria (1857-1900). 



MEDICAL HISTORY or INDIANA. 



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RICHMOND, JOHN L. — Pendleton (1785-1855). 
Dr. Richmond lias a two-line mention in Forkner and 
Dyson's History of Madison County, but no dates are 
given. This is the Dr. Richmond who performed the 
operation of Cesarean section at Newtown, Ohio, in 
1827. See sketch by Dr. Kemper, p. 330. 

RIDER, DANIEL M.— New Columbus (1827-1907). 

RINGO, JAMES L.— Elwood (1866-1901). S. T. 
1902, 422. 




RYAN, TOWNSEND.— Anderson (1813-1879). Dr. 
Ryan was born in Lancaster, Pa., 1813. In early 
manhood he removed to Hamilton, Ohio, where he 
engaged in the mercantile business and was also part 
owner and manager of a line of canal packets run- 
ning between Hamilton and Cincinnati. He was 
impoverished by the panic of 1837. He then studied 



222 MEDICAL BISTORT OF INDIANA. 

medicine and graduated at the Jefferson Medical Col- 
Philadelphia. He practiced first at Lewisville 
in Henry county, but removed to Anderson in 1842 
and for about twenty-five years was one of the most 
prominent physicians of the county and state. He was 
one of the vice-presidents of the Indiana State Medi- 
cal Society at its organization in 1849. He was 
elected to the legislature from Madison county in 
1846. He was engaged actively in the construction 
of the first two railroads which now pass through the 
county. He lost his fortune the second time in a 
contract to build a railroad from Rushville to India- 
napolis. He then returned to the practice of medicine 
in which he was eminently successful. 

When the Civil War broke out he was the first 
democrat in the county to declare in favor of the war 
policy of President Abraham Lincoln. He was a fluent 
public speaker and gave much time to the raising of 
troops'. He soon received a commission as lieutenant- 
colonel of the 34th Indiana Volunteer Infantry and 
went into active service in 1861. He was promoted 
to the colonelcy of the same regiment in 1862 on 
the resignation of Colonel Steele. After the capture 
of Island No. 10, he resigned on account of ill health. 
Not being content out of service he soon returned to 
the front as surgeon of the 54th Indiana Volunteer 
Infantry, in which capacity he served until near the 
close of the war, when he again engaged in practice 
in Anderson. During a few of his latter years he was 
engaged in mercantile business. He was a man of 
superior intelligence, with a mind which seemed in 
advance of his time; always looking toward and 
planning for the future. 

SAUNDERS, JOSEPH. — Prosperity (1849-1909). 
A native of Ohio. Came to Madison County in 1871. 
Graduated at Indiana Medical College, 1844. Prac- 
ticed in county twenty-five years. President of Madi- 
son County Farmers' Insurance from organization. 

SIMS, T. S— Elwood (1836-1896). Dr. Sims was 
a native of Virgina. Came to Madison County in 
1876. Practiced in Elwood sixteen years. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 223 

SPANN, BENJAMIN F.— Anderson (1830-1894). 
Born in Jefferson County, Indiana, May 14, 1830. 
Practiced at Lebanon before locating at Anderson, 
where he arrived November 19, 1860, and continued 
in practice for thirty-four years. He was a graduate 
of the Ohio Medical College. He served a term as 
coroner of Madison County. By appointment of the 
governor he was also a trustee of two state institu- 
tions, the Indiana State Normal School at Terre 
Haute and the Hospital for the Insane at Indianapolis. 
He was a member of the county, state and national 
medical associations. S. T. 1894, 225. See I. M. J., 
Vol. xii, p. 329. 

STEPHENSON, JOSEPH.— Pendleton (1819-1886). 
S. T. 1886, 213. 

SUMAN, WILLIAM.— Anderson (1829-1898). A 
native of Madison County, where he practiced medi- 
cine thirty-eight years; twenty-two in Anderson, and 
sixteen in Frankton. Was a faithful member of the 
medical societies of county and state. S. T. 1899, 
p. 393. 

SWALLOW, GEORGE E. — Summitville, (18—- 
1893). 

TERRILL, LUTHER B. — Anderson (1854-1910). 
Born in Missouri. Educated in Cincinnati. Graduated 
at the Medical College of Ohio in 1880. Practiced 
medicine in Cincinnati. Removed to Anderson in 
1895, where he was one of the foremost physicians 
for fifteen years. He was a surgeon of acknowledged 
ability. Served as surgeon of the American Steel and 
Wire Company during the entire period of his resi- 
dence in Anderson. 

VAN METER, ISAAC N.— Florida (1849-1899). 
A native of Madison county. Graduated from Indiana 
University in 1871 and from Indiana Medical College 
in 1872. Practiced in Madison County twenty-three 
years. S. T. 1900, 340. 

WALKER, MADISON GREENE.— Pendleton (1809- 
1875). A native of West Virginia. Came to Madi- 
son County in 1833, where he was one of the promi- 



224 UEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

nenl physicians for twenty-nine years. Retired to a 
farm in IKtri. Removed to Carthage, Missouri, in 
1874. 

WEEKS. JOSEPH.— Huntsville (1820-1908). Be- 
gan practice at Huntsville, where he was located for 
seven years. Removed to Mechanicsburg in Henry 
County, where he enjoyed a large practice, extending 
far into Madison County, for more than half a century 
after his removal from it. He was the father of 
physiomedicalism in his section. For portrait see 
"The Pioneers," by S. Hardin, p. 41. 

WESTERFIELD, JOHN W. — Anderson (1816- 
1895). Born in Preble County, Ohio, June 1, 1816. 
Removed with his parents to Fayette County, Indiana, 
in 1828, and to Rush County in 1834. Studied medi- 
cine in Rushville. Removed to Madison County in 
1839. He practiced medicine in Anderson many years 
and owned the first drug store established in the 
town. Served one term as auditor of Madison County. 
For portrait see Forkner and Dyson's History of 
Madison County, p. 369. 

WICKERSHAM, NOAH LUDLOW. — Anderson 
(1827-1897). Native of Ohio. Graduated at Miami 
Medical College in 1862. Practiced nine years in 
Huntington County before this date. Practiced thirty- 
five years in Anderson. He wrote poetry of no mean 
character. S. T. 1897, 356 and 357. 

WYMAN, HENRY. — Anderson (1806-1892). A 
native of New York. Came to Madison County in 
1831. In active practice until 1864, then removed to 
Blissfield, Michigan, where he died in 1892. He is 
regarded as the first scientifically educated physician 
to locate in Anderson. Had a large practice, which 
extended all over the county. As a diversion he 
edited a local newspaper. Represented the county in 
the legislature one or more terms and was ranked 
among the ablest of her representatives. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 225 

Some of the Early Practitioners of 
Gibson County 

Dr. William W. Blair of Princeton, a personal 
friend of many years standing, has kindly fur- 
nished me the following notes. Dr. Blair began 
practice in Princeton in the year 1850 and has 
continued up to the present date, and has person- 
ally known nearly all of the practitioners of Gib- 
son County : * 

Fifty or sixty years ago it would have been 
much easier to gather information in regard to 
the early history of Gibson county, than at the 
present day, for at that time there were quite a 
number of the first settlers of this county who 
could have given the names of ail who had been 
practitioners in this vicinity from about the 
year 1805. 

Among the pioneers there were two women 
who were perhaps as well known in the obstetric 
line as any two persons in the county. Mrs. 
John Severn, who with her husband settled on 
Patoka Eiver, three miles northeast of Princeton 
when this country was inhabited mostly by 
Indians and wild animals, was the first prac- 
ticing midwife. I have often talked with her 
daughter, Mrs. William Leathers — who was born, 
lived and died on the same spot of ground — ■ 
about her mother's early experience. 

There were neither bridges nor ferries on 
Patoka Eiver and when "Old Granny Severn," 
as she was familiarly named, had a call to the 
other side of the river — should it be too deep to 



* Dr. Blair has practiced in Princeton more than sixty 
years. — G. W. H. K. 



220 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIA* A. 

"ford" — she would mount her horse and "swim" 
the river, no matter what the temperature or 
condition of the stream. She continued her 
work up to the time of her death, which occurred 
perhaps between the years 1835 and 1840. 

The other midwife was Mrs. Rev. John Kell, 
who settled here in 1816. Just how soon she 
began her work in that line I am unable to say, 
but it was at a very early day, and she continued 
for a number of years after I came to Princeton : 
indeed, till the feebleness of age laid her aside. 
She died in 1857 or 1858. 

For a few years after white people began to 
settle in this locality, there is no record now 
accessible of any physician having located here, 
Yincennes, 27 miles north, being the nearest 
point where medical assistance could be obtained. 

Drs. Casey, Charles Fullerton and Robert 
Stockwell were among the earliest practitioners 
to locate in this county. A few years later, Drs. 
Maddox and Kell were added to the number, but 
there is no available history as to the exact time 
of their location. 

Dr. William Curl, a graduate of the University 
of Virginia, was the first medical graduate to 
practice in Gibson county, having settled in 
Princeton in 1832. He died in March, 1842, 
from pneumonia, at the age of 39 years. 

Dr. I. I. Pennington (1805-1897) was prac- 
ticing here in 1850, but how long before that 
time I am unable to say. Remained until about 
1865. 

Dr. George B. Graff, educated in Baltimore, 
settled here in 1843 and removed to Omaha, 
Neb., about 1862, He died about 1895. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 227 

Dr. James C. Patten graduated at Evansville 
and began practice in this count}' in 1849. He 
died in 1903. He served as assistant surgeon 
Fifty-Eighth Indiana Eegiment during Sher- 
man's march to the sea. 

The names of a number of other deceased phy- 
sicians of Gibson county have already been 
reported in the list heretofore published in your 
records, and need not be mentioned here. 

Supplemental to Physicians of Jackson 
County 

Dr. A. G. Osterman of Seymour has furnished 
me some additional history of the early physi- 
cians of Jackson county (see p. 138). 

Among the earlier physicians was Dr. John 
Tipton Shields, born in 1818. He located at 
Xorth Vernon, where he practiced for a fe^r 
years, then removed to Jackson county, where 
he practiced until the time of his death, Jan. 13, 
1907. Dr. William Bracken practiced a short 
time at Eeddington (1837). Drs. David and 
William Vanoose (Vanuise) practiced at Bock- 
ford in the early thirties. Among other physi- 
cians who located there were Drs. Crippen, Wiles, 
Batman, Lime, Woodward. Hagen, Brandt, Will- 
iamson, and Hillis. Dr. James H. Green was 
born in Jefferson county Dec. 19, 1824, and died 
March 17, 1901. Dr. Jasper E. Monroe was 
born in Kentucky in 1847. He practiced at 
Eockford and Seymour up to the time of his 
death, which occurred about 1881. Dr. Louis J. 
Stage was born in Clearfield county, Pa., April 
30, 1821. He practiced at various places in the 



228 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

county and died Jan. 15, 1S80, at Vallonia. Dr. 
W. C. A. Bain was born Dec. 5, 1819, in Trimble 
county, Kv. He practiced principally at Browns- 
town, where he died March 4, 1894. Dr. John 
Louis Ford was born in Woodford county, Ky., 
1818. He died at Brownstown where he prac- 
ticed for many years. Dr. A. L. Newkirk was 
born in Hamilton county, Ohio, Dec. 4, 1826, 
and practiced at Seymour, where he died in 
1885. Dr. Philip Rosegan was born at Coblenz, 
Germany, June 20, 1827; was graduated from 
the university at Bonn, 1848. Practiced prin- 
cipally at Dudleytown, and died in Columbus, 
June 14, 1893. Dr. Samuel Coryell was born in 
New York 1819. First practiced near Paris 
Crossing, then removed to Crothersville, where 
he died in 1890. Dr. George Chutes was born 
June 8, 1825, at Washington, Ohio; died at Free- 
town in 1882. Dr. Grofton Manuel was born 
Aug. 12, 1834, in Ohio; he practiced in Free- 
town where he died in 1895. Dr. Marshall 
Vance Wilson was born in Lawrence county, Ind., 
March 9, 1839. Located at Medora, and prac- 
ticed there nntil his death, Feb. 10, 1907. Dr. 
F. W. Gibson was born in New Hampshire, May 
12, 1831 ; died at Vallonia, Feb. 12, 1870. Dr. 
Victor Hugo Monroe was born near Eockford, 
Aug. 8, 1852, and died at Seymour in 1894. Dr. 
Samuel Wells practiced at Clearspring in this 
county for many years. I could not get his his- 
tory. I could get no history of Dr. A. M. 
Thompson, who practiced at Houston in 1835. 
nor of Dr. E. P. Eeed. Drs. John Long, and 
Tinch died at Brownstown. Dr. Frank Ewinsr 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 229 

was born near North Vernon in 1851; practiced 
at Vallonia, where he died in 1897. Dr. John 
Quincy Orvis was born in New York; practiced 
at Seymour from 1876 until his death, which 
occurred in 1896. (See page 138.) 



CHAPTER XXI 



ALPHABETICAL LIST OF DECEASED 
PHYSICIANS. 

I wish to state that this is not a complete list 
of all the deceased physicians of Indiana. The 
Transactions of the Indiana State Medical Soci- 
ety are my principal source of information. Pref- 
erably, we must first do honor to this body of 
men who have been the real promoters of legiti- 
mate medicine in our state. Suppose no society 
had been organized in 1849, or any subsequent 
year, what would be our present condition? The 
State Society necessarily led to annual meetings, 
and the creation of useful medical and scientific 
papers, and these were preserved in our Transac- 
tions. The State Society encouraged the several 
medical journals that have existed in our state, 
and that have been so helpful to the profession. 
Our Transactions, medical journals, medical col- 
leges and the valuable laws on our statute books, 
we may say without undue praise, have been 
brought about through the self-sacrifice and en- 
ergy of the men whose names are found upon the 
records of our State Society from 1849 to 1909. 

I have sought for names elsewhere in cases 
where they deserved recognition. In some in- 
stances ancient tombstones have supplied dates. 
After all my pains, and the help of good friends, 
some names will be overlooked, and I shall sin- 
cerely regret such omissions. I have sent letters 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 231 

to every county society in the state asking for 
names of deceased physicians who lived in their 
midst. Many have responded; some have not, so 
I must not bear all the blame. 

Space will not allow lengthy notice of individ- 
uals, and some of their friends may be disap- 
pointed because I have failed to write more 
concerning their personal history, but I have 
endeavored to do justice to all. As the names of 
my friends of the past have come up before me 
my eyes have moistened and I have felt loath to 
cease saying kind words about them. 

I may say that I have aimed to devote more 
space to the earlier physicians of the state, rather 
than to those of a later generation. Also to honor 
those who have rendered more marked service to 
medicine and surgery. The aim is to record the 
correct name, residence, date of birth and date of 
death. Often this supplies all the information 
desired, but the reader can, if he chooses, find ref- 
erence to the particular volume of Transactions, 
where fuller details can be secured. 

I have aimed to give title and reference to pa- 
pers contributed by deceased members and pub- 
lished in the Transactions, so that the sketches are 
helpful as an index. 

I desire to call especial attention to the obit- 
uary notices recorded in the Transactions. Gen- 
erally, they have been written by personal friends 
who knew the deceased, and recorded interesting 
facts which are worthy of perusal. In many 
instances they contain valuable historical infor- 
mation. 



232 MEDICAL HISTORY OF IXDIANA. 

I must record a tribute of praise to the memo- 
ries of Drs. J. R. Beck and J. F. Hibberd, who 
inaugurated the Section of Necrology in 1879. 
Dr. Beck was chairman of this committee one 
year, 1880. when his name was added to the death 
list of 1881, and Dr. Hibberd succeeded him as 
chairman and continued in this capacity until 
1899, when he also went on that unreturning 
visit, leaving the work for others to assume. In 
1900 Dr. G. W. H. Kemper was appointed to the 
chairmanship and has continued to the present 
time. And so, for thirty years a pathetic and 
historical register of our deceased professional 
brethren was an annual source of surprise and 
sorrow. 

Finally, I regret that some physicians have 
been so sensitive over their names in medical 
journals and medical biographies. In many 
instances this over-sensitiveness has hindered my 
work when I have searched for information con- 
cerning individuals. A physician's good name and 
example ought to be an incentive to younger mem- 
bers of the profession. If he has wrought well, 
his deeds and works are the common heritage of 
the profession. 

I wish Dr. Stone had compiled a book on Indi- 
ana physicians that would have comprised all the 
medical men of the state, then my task would 
have been needless or easier. 

"Along the village streets, where maples lean 
Together like old friends about the way, 

A faithful pair oft and anon were seen — 
He and his nag, both growing old and gray; 

What secrets lurked within that old soul's breast: 
Of mother-love, of throb cf pains and ills. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 233 

All safely kept beneath that buttoned vest, 

Receptacle of powders and of pills. 
Thrice happy he when some fond mother's eyes 

Grew moist with love unspeakable to find 
Snugged to her breast her babe whose paradise 

Within her soul and bosom were entwined. 
How oft he held the wrist to mark the slow 

Pulsations of the feebly-fluttering heart, 
While his kind words, soft murmuring and low, 

Essayed to calm the mourner's pain and smart. 
He was to all a father, brother, friend ; 

Their joys were his, their sorrows were his own. 
He sleeps in peace where yonder willows bend 

Above the violets that kiss the stone." 

— Horace S. Keller, in New York Sun. 

Abbreviations: "S. T.," Transactions State Medical 
Society; "I. M. J.," Indiana Medical Journal; "J. I. S. 
M. A.," Journal Indiana State Medical Association;" 
"Robson," The Physicians and Surgeons of the United 
States, 1878, Charles Robson; "Stone," Biography of 
Eminent American Physicians and Surgeons, 1894, R. 
French Stone, M.D., Indianapolis; "R. M. of Ind.," 
Representative Men of Indiana: American Biograph- 
ical History of Eminent and Self -Made Men of the 
State of Indiana, Cincinnati, 1880. 



ABORN, ORIN— Marshfield (1826-1885) S. T. 1886, 
202. Was assistant surgeon of the 40th Reg. Ind. 
Vols. 

ADAMS, JAMES M.— Marion (1820-1894) S. T. 
1895, 404. 

ADAMS, JAMES Mc— Frankfort (1839-1888) S. T. 
1889, 213. Contributed "Report on the prevailing 
diseases of the Seventh Congressional District." Trans. 
1871, 83, and 1872, 111. 

ADAMS, JAMES R.— Petersburg (1824-1903) I. M. 
J., Vol. xxii, 335. Was assistant surgeon of the 58th 
Reg. Ind. Vols, and later surgeon of the 15th Reg. Ind. 
Vols, in the Civil War. 



234 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

ADAMS, MARCELLUS M.— Greenfield (1835-1909) 
Jour. Ind. State Med. Assoc., Vol. ii, 404. Was assist- 
ant surgeon of the 116th Reg. Ind. Vols. 

ADYLOTTE, WILLIAM R.— Badger (1834-1885) 
S. T. 1885, 220. 

AIKMAN, EDGAR A.— Clinton (1855-1906) S. T. 
1907, 492. 

ALEXANDER, STEPHEN J.— New Albany (1812- 
1891) S. T. 1891, 284. 

ALEXANDER, WILBUR.— Frankfort (1869-1906) 
S. T. 1907, 478. 

ALLEN SETH.— Shideler (1845-1898) S. T. 1898, 
386. 

AMICK, CHRISTOPHER C— Hayden (1849-1901) 
S. T. 1901, 480. 

ANDERSON, OLIVER F.— Wheeling (1839-1883) 
S. T. 1884, 210. 

ANDREW, WILLIAM P.— Laporte (1809-1906) 
I. M. J.,Vol. xxv., 80. 

ANDREWS, DANIEL H.— Muncie (1811-1856). 

ANTHONY, EMANUEL.— Indianapolis ( 1840- 

1903). Born in Loudon County, Virginia, May 27, 
1840. He served in the 141st Reg. Ohio Vols. In 1879 
he was elected to the chair of surgery in the Physio- 
Medical College of Indiana, which he filled until 1898. 
He was then appointed to the chair of principles and 
practice of medicine in the same institution, which he 
filled until the time of his death. W. A. Spurgeon. 

ANTHONY— SAMUEL P.— Muncie (1792-1876). 

ARDERY, JOSEPH C— Decatur County (1825- 
1854). Was born in Decatur County, Jan. 28, 1825, 
and died at Hartsville, Nov. 28, 1854. He was present 
at the formation of the State Medical Society, 1849. 

ARMINGTON, WILLIAM.— Greensburg ( 1808- 
1862). 

ARMITAGE, DAVID R.— Delaware County (1831- 
1891) S. T. 1892, 280. 

ARMSTRONG, LEWIS P.— Newtown (1836-1905) 
S. T. 1905, 439. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 235 

ARMSTRONG, WESLEY.— Hillsboro (1832-1884) 
S. T. 1884, 219. 

ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM G.— Lafontaine (1822- 
1881) S. T. 1881, 243. 

ARNOLD, JOHN.— Rushville (1815-1902). For 
biography see Am. Biog. Hist, of eminent and self- 
made men of the State of Indiana, 1880, Dist. 6, 1. 

ARTHUR, CHRISTOPHER C— Portland (1832- 
1898) S. T. 1899, 395. Born in Highland county, Ohio, 
Sept. 15, 1832, and died at his home in Portland, Oct. 
16, 1898. He was a graduate of the Starling Medical 
College, and soon after graduation located in Camden, 
Jay county. Dr. Arthur was a natural mechanic and 
always resourceful in surgery. The author has seen 
a remarkably excellent trephine which Dr. Arthur 
constructed out of an old hand saw, and used in an 
early day to good purposes in many cases. In 1862 
he raised a company for the Seventy-fifth Indiana Vol- 
unteers and was elected Captain. A few days later 
he was appointed surgeon of the regiment. He was 
captured while in charge of a hospital soon after the 
battle of Chickamauga, and sent to Libby prison where 
he was in confinement for six months. Upon his re- 
turn home he was twice elected County Auditor of 
Jay county. After the expiration of his terms of office 
he resumed practice in Portland. In the State Trans- 
actions for 1893, page 188, may be found an exceeding 
valuable paper contributed by Dr. Arthur, entitled 
"Fractures of the Skull with Injuries of the Brain." 
In this paper some sixteen cases are described and all 
are of great interest and show the skill of no ordinary 
surgeon. 

ARWINE, JOHN S.— Columbus (1824-1905), S. T. 
1906, 491. 

ATHON, JAMES S.— Indianapolis (1811-1875). 
Was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, April 1, 1811, 
and died at Indianapolis. Oct. 25, 1875, of cerebral 
hemorrhage. Dr. Athon was surgeon of the Third 
Indiana Volunteer Regiment in the Mexican War. He 
was present at the State Medical convention at In- 
dianapolis, in June, 1849, and was accredited to 



236 MEDICAL ll/sToin or INDIAHi i. 

Charlestown. He was numbered with the pioneer physi- 
cians of Indiana, having practiced for about forty 
years. From Nov. 1, 1852, to Oct. 3, 1861, he was 
superintendent of the Central Indiana Hospital for 
Insane. He was elected and served as Secretary of 
State from 1863 to 1865. See article on "Final Illness 
of Dr. James S. Anthon. Post-mortem Examination, 
and Remarks upon the Preventive Treatment of Apo- 
plexy," by Dr. Isaac C. Walker, Trans. 1876, p. 122. 

ATKINS, JOSEPH.— Lafayette (1812-1904), I. M. 
J., Vol. xxii, 368. 

AUSTIN, CHARLES B.— Veedersburg (1825-1890), 
S. T. 1890, 163. 

AUSTIN, STEPHEN S.— Etna (1821-1884), S. T. 
1885, 216. 

AVERDICK, HENRY G.— Oldenburg (1826-1892), 
S. T. 1893, 254. See I. M. J., Vol. xi, 144. Was sur- 
geon of Thirty-fifth Regiment Indiana Infantry. 

AYRES, HENRY P.— Ft. Wayne (1813-1887), S. T. 
1888, 208. Dr. Ayres was a native of New Jersey. 
Graduated from the University of New York in 1842, 
and located in Ft. Wayne the same year, where he 
resided until his death. Was elected president of the 
State Society in 1871. He contributed the following 
papers to the Transactions: "Report on Obstetrics," 
— 1859, 30; "Epidemic Dysentery in Allen County in 
1P45, 1854, 1856, 1864,"— 1867, 127; "Indiana's Idiotic 
Children,"— 1868, 106; "Self Pollution in Children," 
—1871, 161; "President's Address,"— 1872, 1. 

AYRES, STEPHEN D.— Marion (1811-1898), S. T. 
1899, 390. 

BAKER, JOSEPH H.— Lafayette (1854-1893), S. T. 
1894, 223. See I. M. J., Vol. xii, 293. 

BAKER, MOSES.— Lafayette (1823-1888). Case of 
Cesarean section, operation Nov. 6, 1880. Mother and 
child saved. I. M. J., Vol. ii, 1. "Post-partum Hemor- 
rhage," S. T. 1885, 136. 

BAKER, PHILIP S.— Indianapolis (1851-1901), S. 
T. 1902, 408. For ten years prior to his death he held 
the professorship of chemistry in the Medical College 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 237 

of Indiana, and was recognized as one of the leading 
chemists of the country. I. M. J., Vol. xx, 154. 

BAKER, THOMAS H. B.— Pekin (1838-1905). S. 
T. 1905, 440. 

BALINGALL, GEORGE H.— Middletown (1794- 
1865). Born in Scotland, 1794. Educated at Edin- 
burg. Came to America in 1815. Practiced first in 
Virginia. Removed to Middletown, Ind., in early 
thirties; died there in 1865, aged 71 years. Acquired 
a competence and retired some years before his death. 

BALLARD, CHESTER G.— Perryville (1792-1858). 
Dr. Ballard was born in Wendell, Mass., Jan. 14, 1792, 
and died at Perryville, June 21, 1858. He formerly 
practiced at Waveland, and was present at the forma-, 
tion of the State Society. 

BALLARD, NATHAN H.— Richmond (1849-1898). 
S. T. 1899, 401. 

BALLARD, S. H.— Haubstadt (1856-1885). S. T. 
1885, 218. 

BALLOU, A. B.— Burnettsville (1831-1893). S. T. 
1894, 224. 

BARKER, ANDREW J.— Tipton (1840-1883). S. 
T. 1883, 273. 

BARNS, WILLIAM C— Marion (1850-1905). S. T. 
1906, 495. 

BARTHOLOMEW, BRADLEY. — Danville ( 1804- 
1902). S. T. 1903, 332. 

BARTON, GAYLORD G.— Washington (1809-1884). 
S. T. 1884, 217. 

BATES, AARON J.— Kokomo (1843-1906). S. T. 
1906, 497. 

BAUER, MODESTUS.— Vincennes (1830-1884). S. 
T. 1884, 223. 

BEARD, FERDINAND W.— Vincennes (1835-1891) 
S. T. 1891, 283. Born in Harrison county, Indiana, 
Feb. 7, 1835, and died at Vincennes, Feb. 11, 1891. He 
was a practitioner of medicine for thirty-four years. 
He was one of the original members of the Knox 
County Medical Society, and was especially active in 



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various professional societies. He was a regular at- 
tendant and active worker in the State Society, and 
was Vice President in 1875. He deserves mention for 
his loyalty to his county and state societies. 

BECK, ELIAS W. H.— Delphi (1822-1888). S. T. 
1889, 211. Born in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, Jan. 
18, 1822; graduated at University of New York in 
March, 1848. Previous to graduation he served as 
assistant surgeon in the U. S., Army during the Mex- 
ican war, being attached to the general hospital at 
Matamoras. In the spring of 1848 he began to prac- 
tice at Delphi. In 1850 he crossed the plains to 
California where he practiced for four months. In 
1851 he returned to Delphi where he continued to 
practice until his death, which occurred Oct. 6, 1888. 
During the Civil War he was for one year surgeon of 
the Third Indiana Cavalry Regiment, six months a 
brigade surgeon, and for eighteen months surgeon of 
a division. On the night of July 3, 1863, while on 
duty at his hospital at the Presbyterian Church in 
Gettysburg he discovered the beginning of the retreat 
of the Confederates, and promptly reported the fact to 
General Hancock. Dr. Beck is accredited with having 
made a resection of the shoulder joint, in which four 
inches of humerus was removed, the patient recovering 
with a fairly useful arm. (Med. and' Surg. Hist, of 
the War of the Rebellion, Part 2, Surg. Vol., 550.) 

BECK, JOSEPH R.— Ft. Wayne (1843-1880). S. 
T. 1881, 243. Born at Lancaster, Ohio, March 19, 
1843; died at Ft. Wayne, Dec. 30, 1880. He practiced 
at Toledo and Lancaster, Ohio, and since 1871 at Ft. 
Wayne. He was professor of gynecology and genito- 
urinary diseases in the Ft. Wayne college of medi- 
cine at the time of his death. It was upon the motion 
of Dr. Beck at the May meeting of the State Society 
in 1879 that a committee of necrology was created. He 
was appointed as Chairman and served the following 
year, at which time his death occurred, and Dr. J. F. 
Hibberd succeeded as Chairman. He contributed a 
number of articles to periodicals, and in transactions 
of 1875, 95, a paper on Iodide of Potassium, and in 
1880, 100, an article on "Tumors of the Anterior Walls 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 239 

of Vagina." He was also the author of a paper pub- 
lished in the Am. Jour, of Obs. in 1874, entitled "How 
do the Spermatozoa Enter the Uterus?" See also 
Robson, p. 522. 

BECKES, LYMAN M.— Vincennes (1862-1904). 
S. T. 1905, 441. 

BEER, HENRY M.— Valparaiso (1838-1903). Was 
a native of Ohio. In June, 1861, enlisted in the 
Twenty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteers, and soon aft- 
erward was made hospital steward of same regiment. 
Later he served as a contract surgeon at Cumberland, 
Md. In 1868 he located in Valparaiso, where he spent 
the remainder of his life. Dr. Beer was a skillful 
physician and surgeon, and was loved by his fellow- 
men. 

BERRY, GEORGE.— Brookville (1811-1892). S. T. 
1892, 292. Dr. Berry was a member of the State Con- 
stitutional Convention, and represented Franklin 
county in the State Senate and House of Representa- 
tives, and filled several county offices. During the 
Mexican War he was surgeon of the Sixteenth Regi- 
ment U. S. Infantry. Dr. Berry stood high as a local 
surgeon. 

BERRYMAN, JAMES A.— Darlington (1836-1896). 
S. T. 1897, 345. 

BEVER, JOHN C— Vincennes (1819-1903). S. T. 
1903, 333. 

BEVERLY, JOHN E.— Winchester (1816-1888). S. 
T. 1889, 207. 

BIGELOW, JAMES K.— Indianapolis (1833-1886). 
S. T. 1886, 218. Born at Bellebrook, Ohio, Oct. 17, 
1833; died at Indianapolis, June 1, 1886. When the 
Governor called for three months' volunteers in 1861, 
he volunteered as a private and at the end of this 
term re-enlisted, was made hospital steward Eighth 
Indiana Volunteers; was commissioned as an assistant 
surgeon October, 1862, and promoted to surgeon July, 
1863. 

BLACK, NORMAN W.— Selma (1827-1880). S. T. 
1881, 235. 



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BLAIR, FRANKLIN.— Princeton (1859-1907). S. 
T. 1907, 4S2. 

BLOUNT, CYRUS N.— Kokomo (1832-1887). S. T. 
1888, 209. Dr. Blount contributed two articles to the 
State Society, "Diabetes Mellitus," S. T. 1874, 91; and 
"Cerebral Softening, with Report of a Case," 1887, 116. 

BLUNT, MARCUS S.— Vernon (1826-1881). S. T. 
1882, 198. 

BOBBS, JOHN S.— Indianapolis (1809-1870). Was 
born at Greenvillage, Pennsylvania, Dec. 28, 1809, and 
died at Indianapolis, May 1, 1870. Dr. Bobbs located 
at Indianapolis in 1835, but took a course of lectures 
in Jefferson Medical College the same year, graduating 
in 1836. When the Medical College of Indiana was 
organized, he was elected professor of surgery, and 
later dean of the faculty. Dr. P. H. Jameson says that 
the latter part of his life was devoted mainly to sur- 
gery, and that "he was original and bold almost to 
lecklessness." Dr. Bobbs was one of the original com- 
missioners who organized the Indiana Hospital for 
the Insane. He was a state senator for one term. 
During the Civil War he was brigade surgeon on the 
staff of Gen. T. A. Morris. At his death he gave 
$2,000 for a dispensary, and $5,000 for a free medical 
library. He was not an extensive contributor to med- 
ical or surgical literature. In The Transactions of 
the State Medical Society for 1868, 1, may be found 
Dr. Bobbs' address as President of the society. It is 
a valuable paper, and is entitled, "The Origin, Objects 
and Progress of the Indiana State Medical Society." 
In that paper he makes a special plea for the estab- 
lishment of a medical journal, to be the organ of the 
profession in the state. The crowning glory of Dr. 
Bobbs' professional life is his well earned reputation 
as the "Founder of Cholecystotomy," inasmuch as he 
was the first to open the gall-bladder. The operation 
was performed June 15, 1867, the patient, a woman 
thirty years of age, made a thorough recovery, and is 
living at the present time. The original paper, which 
has elicited so much interest of late years, was entitled 
"Case of Lithotomy of the Gail-Bladder," and was pub- 
lished in the State Transactions, 1868, 68. Republished 




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242 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

in full in I. M. J., Vol. xxiv, 26. The reader who may 
desire to consult the literature on the subject of Dr. 
Bobbs and the first case of cholecystotomy, can do so 
by the following additional references: Indiana Med- 
ical Journal,, Vol. xvii, 432; Vol. xviii, 177, 277; Vol. 
xxi, 193, and a most elaborate report on the case and 
patient by Dr. A. W. Brayton, in the same Journal, 
Vol. xxiv, 21, 55, with a picture of the patient, p. 38. 
Also, on p. 33, same journal, a "Memorial of Dr. 
Bobbs," by Dr. P. H. Jameson. His last contribution 
to surgery was written a few days before his death: 
"Two Cases of Nsevi in Infants, Treated by Ligation 
and Excision; and Excision Alone." Ind. Jour. Med., 
Vol. 1, 33 (May, 1870). See biographical sketches, 
S. T. 1871, p. 211, by Dr. G. W. Mears, Ind. Jour, of 
Med., Vol i, p. 47, by Dr. Thad M. Stevens, Dr. M. 
Tinker, Johns Hopkins Bulletin, August, 1901, and 
I. M. J., Vol. xx, p. 193. 

BOND, RICHARD C— Aurora (1822-1904). S. T. 
1905, 442. 

BOOR, WALTER A.— New Castle (1849-1897). S. 
T. 1898, 375. 

BOOR, WILLIAM F.— New Castle (1819-1907). 
Dr. Boor first located in Henry county in 1846, having 
removed from Ohio. With the exception of a few 
years' residence later in Ohio, he continued to reside 
in Henry county until his death, which occurred July 
17, 1907. He was surgeon of the Fourth Indiana Cav- 
alry regiment during the Civil War. It was his boast 
that in his long span of life, he never used intoxicants 
or tobacco. Robson, p. 617. 

BOUNELL, MATHEW H.— Lebanon (1822-1896). 
S. T. 1896, 271. Was surgeon of the One Hundred and 
Sixteenth Regiment Indiana Infantry. See R. M. of 
Ind., Dist. 6, p. 10. 

BOWERS, ANDREW J.— Moore's Hill (1827-1902). 
S. T. 1902, 409. 

BOWLBY, JOSEPH.— Shelbyville (1854-1906). S. 
T. 1907, 490. 




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I'll UEDIC l/. HISTORY OF INDIA \ L. 

BOYD, SAMUEL S.— Dublin (1820-1888). S. T. 
1888, 213. Born in Wayne county, Indiana, March 31, 
1820, and died April 16, 1888. Dr. Boyd graduated 
at the Ohio Medical College in 1848, and soon after 
began practice at Jacksonburg, and later removed to 
Centerville. In 1862 he was appointed surgeon of the 
Eighty-fourth Indiana Volunteers, and remained with 
that regiment until near the close of the war. He 
then located at Dublin, where he continued to prac- 
tice medicine until the date of his death. Dr. Boyd 
was a typical family physician. In 1876 he was elected 
President of the State Medical Society. Besides Presi- 
dent's address, 1877, he has contributed the following 
papers to the transactions of the state society: "Vera- 
trum Viride," Trans. 1874, 31; "Tobacco," 1876, 23, 
and "Medical Legislation," 1884, 17. 

BRACKEX, WILLIAM.— Greensburg (1817-1907). 
Dr. Bracken was born in Dearborn County, May 26, 
1817, and died at Greensburg, Aug. 13, 1907. He was 
licensed to practice medicine by the old Fifth District 
Medical Society at its session in Connersville, on 
Nov. 2, 1836. He commenced the practice of medicine 
in Jackson County, Jan. 1, 1837, where he remained 
about two years, after which he removed to Richland, 
Rush County. In 1842 he moved to Milroy, in same 
county, where he continued to practice until the spring 
of 1862, when he removed to Greensburg, and con- 
tinued practice until a few years before his death. 

He studied medicine with Dr. H. G. Sexton, at Rush- 
ville, Indiana. He had no educational advantages, 
except five months in school, schools of an insufficient 
order even for that day. However, he continued a dili- 
gent student throughout his entire life. He was elected 
a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of In- 
diana in 1850, and at the time of his death was the 
last surviving member. — Leonidas L. Bracken, grand- 
son, Muncie. 

BRADBURY, ALLISOX B.— Muncie (1842-1892). 
S. T. 1892, 289. 




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246 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

BRADY, C. C— Lincolnville (1852-1895). S. T. 
1896, 255. 

BRANDON, JOSEPH F.— Anderson (1835-1888). 
S. T. 1888, 210. 

BRAY, MADISON J.— Evansville (1811-1900). Dr. 
Bray was born at Turner, Maine, 1811, and graduated 
at Bowdoin Medical College in 1835, and located the 
same year at Evansville. He filled the chair of surgery 
in Evansville Medical College for about twelve years; 
was surgeon at the marine hospital, Evansville, for 
four years; surgeon in the United States army three 
years, and later at St. Marie's Hospital. In 1855 he 
was President of the Indiana State Medical Society. 
He contributed several papers on cancer, lithotomy. 
and tumors. In Vol. i, 4th Ed. Gross' Surg., p. 217, 
mention is made of a fatty tumor which Dr. Bray re- 
moved, weighing nearly forty pounds. He died Aug. 
22, 1900, at the age of 89, having lived in Evansville 
for 65 years. Was surgeon of the Sixtieth Regiment 
Indiana Infantry. Ob. I. M. J., Vol. xix, 122. 

BRID WELL, LAFAY^ETTE.— Owensburg ( 1844- 
1903). S. T. 1903, 334. 

BRITTAIN, STEPHEN H.— Loogootee (1836-1904). 
S. T., 1905, 443. 

BROOKS, WILLIAM H.— Ft. Wayne (1813-1894). 
S. T. 1895, 405. 

BROWER, JEREMIAH H.— Lawrenceburg (1798- 
1866). Ob. Cin. Jour. Med., 1866, i, 493-495. Memoir 
by Prof. C. G. Comegys. Author of article on "Camp 
Diarrhea." Trans. 1863, 45. Was President of the 
State Society in 1853. Contributed to the State 
Medical Society the following articles: "President's 
Address," Trans. 1853, 14; "Report of the Committee 
on Vital Statistics," 1853, 74; 1855, 11; 1856, 56; and 
1860, 40; "Camp Diarrhea," 1863, 45. and "Atresia 
Vagina from Imperforate Hymen," 1865, 21. 

BROWN, CLAY.— Indianapolis (1826-1862). Was 
assistant surgeon of the Eleventh Regiment Indiana 
Volunteers. Died on board steamer John Roe, at 
Crump's Landing, Tennessee River, of typhoid pneu- 







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MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 247 

monia, March 11, 1862, aged thirty-six years. S. T. 
1862, 49. 

BROWN, SAMUEL M.— New Bethel (1822-1904). 
I. M. J., Vol. xxiii, 34. 

BROTHERS, GUY M.— New Paris (1875-1906). S. 
T. 1907, 480. 

BRUNT, SAMUEL F.— Summitville (1849-1883). S. 
T. 1884, 207. 

BRYAN, T. N.— Indianapolis (1833-1902). S. T. 
1902, 407. 

BULLARD, TALBOTT.— Indianapolis (1815-1863). 
Dr. Bullard was a native of Massachusetts, and a de- 
scendant of Puritanic stock. He came to Indianapolis 
about the year 1844, where he formed a partnership 
with Dr. Mears. He was a physician, with no desire 
to invade the domain of surgery. It was not his prac- 
tice first to use emetics or cathartics, or both, to pre- 
pare the system for the use of quinin, as was the 
custom of many in his day. He declared that delays 
often allowed the patient to die, so he gave that 
remedy in full doses from the start, whether the pa- 
tient had fever or no fever. In 1850, Dr. Bullard had 
a painful experience in his obstetric practice. Dr. 
Holmes had not yet promulgated his views on the con- 
tagiousness of puerperal fever, but it was demon- 
strated in the work of Dr. Bullard who lost ten cases 
in one year, when he sadly abandoned all obstetric 
work for some months. In 1862, Dr. Bullard organized 
and conducted for a time a hospital for sick Confed- 
erate soldiers confined at Camp Morton. He went on 
a mission to attend Indiana soldiers at Vicksburg, and 
while in the line of duty contracted a malignant dys- 
entery. He returned home to survive but a short 
time, dying prematurely at the age of forty-eight. 
Address, S. T. 1859, 11, sketch S. T. 1894, 212j. 

BUNTON, EDWIN A.— Greensfork (1846-1899). S. 
T. 1899, 407. 

BURK, GEORGE L.— Jamestown (1820-1891). S. 
T. 1892, 282. . 



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BURKE, GEORGE W.— New Castle (1841-1901). S. 
T. 1902, 410. I. M. J., Vol. xx, 226. 

BURLINGAME, E. G.— Oakland City (1867-1909). 

BURT, JAMES CLARK.— Vernon (1817-1875). Dr. 
Burt was born in Cumberland County, New Jersey, in 
1817. He attended Hanover College, Hanover, Ind., 
and Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., graduating at the 
latter. His medical education was received at Jeffer- 
son College, Philadelphia. 

He located in Vernon, Jennings County, Indiana, in 
1842 and practiced medicine there until the time of his 
death in 1875. Doctor Burt was very active in religi- 
ous and educational matters. He was for many years 
a trustee of the State Institution for the Deaf and 
Dumb at Indianapolis, the Vernon Academy, and for 
a long time was Pension Examiner. — Dr. W. H. 
Stemm, North Vernon. 

BURTON, GEORGE W.— Mitchell (1836-1898). S. 
T. 1899, 388. 

BYERS, ALEXANDER R.— Petersburg (1829- 
1897). S. T. 1898, 378. 

BYFORD, WILLIAM H.— Chicago (1817-1890). The 
subject of this sketch was born at Eaton, Ohio, March 
20, 1817; when he was a mere child his parents re- 
moved to New Albany, Ind., where they remained but 
a short time, and then removed to Crawford county, 
111. Here the future physician began to learn the 
trade of a tailor, and later removed to Vincennes, Ind., 
where he continued to work at his trade. Colonel 
Vail, with whom I served in the Civil War, told me 
that he had often seen young Byford sitting on his 
bench at work, with a Latin grammar at his side, with 
which he employed every spare moment. He began 
his practice at Owensville, Ind., under the custom then 
prevailing in this state, armed with a certificate signed 
by three commissioners appointed for the purpose. He 
graduated at the Ohio Medical College in 1844. He 
practiced at Mt. Vernon until 1850, when he removed 
to Evansville to accept the chair of anatomy in the 
Evansville Medical College. In 1852 he was transferred 
to the chair of Theory and Practice, a position he re- 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 249 

tained until 1856, at which time the school ceased to 
exist. He continued* to practice in Evansville until 
1857, when he was called to Chicago to fill the chair 
of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children. 
His rapid rise in that city was a pride to all his 
Indiana friends, but can be only alluded to in this 
article, which is confined to Indiana triumphs in medi- 
cine. Educating himself in the midst of lowly poverty, 
and rising to a high rank as a practitioner, lecturer, 
and author, his life and example are a stimulus to 
others. His distinguished son, Dr. Henry T. Byford, 
was born in Evansville, Nov. 12, 1853. In the Trans- 
actions of the Indiana State Medical Society for 1854, 
p. 78, Dr. Byford contributes "Report of the Proceed- 
ings of the American Medical Association." 

CADY, WILLIAM F.— Lafayette (1826-1883). S. 
T. 1884, 224. Dr. Cady was one of the early advocates 
of the free school system and one of the founders of 
the Tippecanoe County Medical Society. He filled sev- 
eral honorable positions as surgeon during the civil 
war. 

CANADY, W. H.— Knightstown (1821-1873). S. T. 
1873, 124. 

CANNON, GEORGE H.— New Albany (1852-1907). 
Lived and died in his native city. Was a member of 
the Floyd County Medical Society, and was loved and 
respected. Death was due to obstruction of the bowels 
caused by a gall-stone. 

CAREY, ISAAC— Marion (1812-1909). Was a resi- 
dent of Grant county for fifty-nine years. 

CARR, GEORGE W.— Ligonier (1830-1895). S. T. 
1895, 416. 

CARSON, WILLIAM F.— Huntington (1851-1900). 
S. T. 1901, 481. 

CASSELBERRY, ISAAC— Evansville (1821-1873). 
Dr. Casselberry was a native of Posey county, Indiana. 
After graduating at the Ohio Medical College he 
located in Evansville. At the commencement of the 
Civil War he was appointed surgeon of the First In- 
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250 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

until the close of the war. From the time that Evans- 
ville was placed under sanitary regulations, until his 
death. Dr. Casselberry filled the office of the secretary 
of the Board of Health. In 1871 he was appointed pro- 
fessor of physical diagnosis in the Evansville Medical 
(College. He contributed an article on ''An Inquiry 
Into the Physiology of the Organic Nervous System." 
Am. Jour. Med. Sciences, 1852. "Causes of Fever," lb., 
April, 1856. "Ancient Marriages of Consanguinity," 
lb., 1859. Also a series of articles on "The Causes of 
Epidemics," Nashville Med. and Surg. Jour., from No- 
vember, 1857, to May, 1858. His writings are acknowl- 
edged to be valuable aids to medical knowledge. See 
Trans. Ind. State Med. Soc, 1874, 179; lb., 1855, 52, 
"An Inquiry into the Physiology of the Organic Ner- 
vous System," and lb., 1872, 93," "The Mode in Which 
Electricity Acts on the Human Organism." Both of 
these articles contributed to the State Medical Society 
are practical papers. 

CHAMBERLAIN, JAMES N.— Waterloo (1822- 
1896). S. T. 1896, 265. 

CHAMBERLAIN, SAMUEL B. — Lawrenceburg 
(1825-1897). S. T., 1898, 389. 

CHAMBERS, JOHN.— Indianapolis (1846-1892). 
Born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1846, and was educated at 
the Dublin University. Came to Indianapolis in 1873. 
He was a teacher for fifteen years in the Indiana Med- 
ical College, filling the chairs of anatomy, principles 
and practice of medicine, and adjunct professor of dis- 
eases of women. See I. M. J., Vol. xi, p. 88. 

CHANNTNG, WILLIAM S.— Pendleton (1851- 
1906). S. T. 1907, 489. 

CHARLES, HENRY.— Formerly Carthage (1822- 
1884). Was born in Randolph County in 1822. Grad- 
uate of Indiana Medical College, 1872 or "73, but 
practiced in Grant County previously to that date. 
Was a member of the Grant County Medical Society. 
He was intimately associated with Drs. William and 
Constantine Lomax, Home, and Meek. They all 
worked together professionally during the "saddle bags 
age." He moved from Fairmount to Carthage in 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 251 

1878, and went to Kansas in April, 1884, and died 
there July 11, 1884. He contributed an article on 
"Tobacco and Its Toxic Effects." Trans. 1881, 121.— 
Dr. Etta Charles, daughter, Summitville. 

CHARLTON, SAMUEL H.— Seymour (1826-1897). 
S. T. 1897, 353. He was assistant surgeon of the Sixth 
Indiana Vols, in the Civil War. In 1882 was vice- 
president, and 1888 president, of the Indiana State 
Medical Society. In the State Transactions. 1887, 55, 
is an article from his pen, entitled "Is There a Typho- 
Malarial Fever?" Transactions, 1888, 5, another 
article, "President's Address, Relating to the Work of 
the Society. See Robson, p. 639. Stone (with por- 
trait), p. 83. 

CHENOWETH, JOHN T.— Winchester (1833-1903). 
S. T., 1903, 335. 

CHENOWETH, NELSON T.— Windsor (1837-1909). 
Was a soldier of the Civil War, having served in one 
or two Ohio regiments. Member of Randolph County 
Medical Society. 

CHENOWITH, GEORGE F.— Huntington (1849- 
1899). S. T. 1900, 319. 

CHITWOOD, GEORGE R.— Connersville (1805- 
1893). S. T. 1893, 251. In 1831 he located at Scipio. 
In 1838 he removed to Liberty, and in 1840 was ad- 
mitted to the bar, practicing both law and medicine. 
In 1840 he was elected associate judge of Union 
County Circuit Court, in which position he served seven 
years. In 1859 he was elected to the chair of general 
pathology in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and 
Surgery, and to the chair of obstetrics in 1861. He 
located at Connersville in 1847. I. M. J., Vol. xii, p. 32. 

CHITWOOD, JOSHUA.— Connersville (1838-1903). 
S. T. 1903, 336. Was surgeon of the Seventh Regiment 
Indiana Cavalry. 

CHURCHILL, JOHN M.— Indianapolis (1863-1893). 
S. T. 1894, 222. 

CLAPP, ASAHEL.— New Albany (1792-1862). Born 
in Massachusetts Oct. 5, 1792, and died Oct. 29, 1862. 
Located in New Albany in 1817. Was present at the 



MEDICAL EI8T0R1 OF I \ DIANA. 

Medical Convention, June 6, 1849. — (Miss Lydia Town- 
send.) 

CLAPP, WILLIAM A.— New Albany (son of above) 
(1822-1900). Was born in New Albany, Oct. 29, 1822, 
and died in same city Nov. 7, 1900. Was a graduate 
of the Jefferson Medical College (1848). Was surgeon 
of the Thirty-eighth Reg. Ind. Vols. Was a member 
of the Medical Convention, June 6, 1849. — (Miss Lydia 
Townsend.) 

CLARK, DOUGAN.— Richmond (1828-1896). Dr. 
Clark was born in Randolph county, North Carolina, 
May 17, 1828. He graduated from Haverford College 
in 1852. Three years later he entered the medical 
department of the University of Maryland, and after 
removing to Indiana completed his medical studies at 
the University of Pennsylvania, where he received the 
degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1861. He lived at 
Carthage, Westfield and Indianapolis, in this state, and 
located at Richmond in 1866, and became professor of 
Greek and Latin at Earlham College. In 1869 he en- 
tered the ministry in the Friend's Church. His death 
occurred from pernicious anemia, Oct. 10, 1896. — 
Abridged from record by Dr. Edmond Clark, I. M. J., 
Vol. xv, p. 295. 

To the State Transactions he contributed an article 
on "Female Doctors," 1867, 116, and a second on 
"Anesthetics in Midwifery," 1871, 29. A charm was 
added to Dr. Clark's articles and discussions by his 
musical voice and clear delivery. 

CLARK, J. C— Corydon (1809-1895). I. M. J., Vol. 
xiv, 177. 

CLARK, LEMON W.— Elkhart (1858-1896). S. T. 
1896, 267. 

CLARK, WILLIAM R. S.— Bluffton (1820-1882). S. 
T. 1883, 267. 

COCHRAN, JAMES.— Spiceland (1824-1894). I. M. 
J., Vol. xii, 410. 

COE, ISAAC— Indianapolis (1782-1855). S. T. 
1893, 18. Was born in Morris county, New Jersey, 
July, 1782. For a time he engaged in the manufacture 
of glasa at Utiea, X. Y., but soon afterward studied 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 253 

medicine, and came to Indianapolis in 1821. He first 
built a cabin near the bank of Fall Creek, which was 
known as "the house with glass windows." A few 
years later he built a commodious frame dwelling on 
the Circle, where he resided until 1853, and then moved 
to Galena, 111., where he died in 1855. His remains 
were brought back and buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, 
by the side of his wife. He was one of the founders 
and from the first an Elder in the First Presbyterian 
Church, and the father of Sunday schools in Indian- 
apolis. He exerted an influence for good in Indian- 
apolis which will continue to the end of time. 

I notice in Lockerbie, Assessment List of 1835 that 
Dr. Coe owned a number of lots in the town of Indian- 
apolis. They were valued at $2,720; personal, $500; 
buildings, $1,000, and his taxes amounted to $11.80, 
which he promptly paid. 

COGLEY, THOMAS J.— Madison (1814-1895). Born 
near Kittanning, Pa., March 20, 1814. Began practice 
at Brookville in 1837. In 1853-54 studied abroad in 
Great Britain and France. In 1845 established him- 
self in Madison where he continued to reside until the 
date of his death, Dec. 23, 1895. Became a member 
of the State Medical Society in 1855, and was a vice- 
president of same in 1857. See "Address of Dr. Cogley 
on Hospitals in Europe." Trans. 1856, G6. Also 
"Report on the Practice of Medicine." Trans. 1857, 
19. 

COLE, HENRY C— Kokomo (1838-1881). S. T. 
1882, 197. 

COLE, WILLIAM C— Attica (1828-1894). S. T. 
1894, 228. Dr. Cole, at the age of 18, enlisted in the 
regular army, and served in Mexico under General 
Scott. In the Civil War he was surgeon of the Seventy- 
second Reg. Ind. Vols., and during the last year of the 
war was brigade surgeon of Wilder's Brigade of 
Mounted Infantry. 

COLLINS, GEORGE M.— Tipton (1838-1896). S. 
T. 1897, 363. Dr. Collins served as assistant surgeon 
of the Seventeenth Reg. Ind. Vols, from December, 
1864, to the close of the war. 

COLLINS, WILLIAM A.— Madison (1842-1883). S. 
T. 1884, 208. 



254 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

OOLLUM, WILLIAM F.— Jeffersonville (1812- 
1806). He was an eminent surgeon, locating in Jeffer- 
sonville in 1838. Was mayor of that city from 1848 
to 1855, and served in the city council several terms. 
Died in Jeffersonville, Sept. 19, 1866, from blood 
poisoning resulting from wound received in making 
post-mortem examination. — (Note from Drs. Peyton 
and Field, Jeffersonville.) 

Dr. Collum was one of the founders of the State Med- 
ical Society in 1849. 

COLVERT, WILLIAM.— Fountain county (1816- 
1883). S. T. 1883, 281. 

COMINGOR, JOHN A.— Indianapolis (1829-1908). 
Dr. Comingor for many years was a practitioner 
in Indianapolis, and at one time professor of sur- 
gery in the Medical College of Indiana. For two 
years prior to his death he had retired from practice 
and made his home with his daughter in Davenport, 
Iowa, where his death occurred Jan. 8, 1908. Con- 
tributed article on "Excision of Bone," Trans. 1866, 72. 
Was surgeon of the Eleventh Regiment Indiana Infan- 
try. 

COMPTON, JOHN W.— Evansville (1825-1905). S. 
T. 1905, 444. Dr. Compton contributed the following 
articles to our State Transactions: "Sanitary Prog- 
ress," 1881, 18; "Animal Vaccination," 1882, 188, and 
"The Treatment of Ante-partum Hemorrhage," 1888, 
75. He was quite a contributor to medical journals 
and medical societies. See Robson, p. 606. 

COOPER, WILLIAM.— New Albany (1809-1879). 
Was born at Chambersburg, Pa., March 27, 1809. 
Graduated at Jefferson Medical College in 1834, and 
in 1835 located at New Albany, and for a time was in 
partnership with Dr. Pleasant S. Shields. He was a 
visitor to the Jeffersonville penitentiary in the forties, 
and added several humane conditions to that institu- 
tion. His name is on the list of physicians at the con- 
vention of 1849. During the Civil War he was a sur- 
geon in the military hospital at New Albany. He died 
July 10, 1879. Dr/Samuel Cooper (1838-1888), son of 
the above, moved to St. Louis countv, Missouri, where 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 255 

he died in March, 1888. — Letter from Mrs. Mary 
Cooper Moore, Wichita, Kas., daughter of William 
Cooper. 

COREY, LAV ANNER.— Grant county (1834-1896). 
S. T. 1897, 350. 

CORLEW, RUFUS M.— Evansville (1843-1896). S. 
T. 1896, 272. 

CORNETT, WILLIAM T. S.— Madison (1805-1897). 
Was born Jul}' 11, 1805, at Carrolton, Ky., and died 
at Madison, Ind., May 6, 1897. He came to Indiana, 
locating at Versailles, Ripley county, in 1825, where 
he remained in active practice for forty years. At the 
time Dr. Cornett located in Indiana, each judicial dis- 
trict constituted a medical district, and the district 
society had three censors whose duty it was to examine 
applicants, and if found qualified they would give a 
permit to practice until the next meeting of the society. 
Dr. Cornett came under this rule. In 1852 the Univer- 
sity of Louisville and the Indiana Central Medical Col- 
lege each conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of 
Medicine. 

Dr. Cornett was the first president of the Indiana 
State Medical Society, and delivered the first annual 
address at Indianapolis, May 15, 1850. Published in 
Transactions 1850, 13. 

In 1866, having become somewhat infirm, Dr. Cor- 
nett gave up active practice and removed to Madison, 
where he practiced only in consultation. Here he be- 
came interested in geology and in time became thor- 
oughly familiar with the geology of southern Indiana. 

He represented the county of Ripley in the State 
Senate for six years, beginning in 1841. Dr. Cornett 
writes (I. M. J.', May, 1893, 323) : "At the session of 
1843-4, when the revenue bill of the House was re- 
ported to the Senate I moved to amend the bill so that 
an additional one cent on the hundred dollars be levied 
as a fund with which to build a Lunatic Asylum. This 
amendment was carried in the Senate, and the House 
concurred in the amendment. With this fund a farm 
was purchased near Indianapolis, and on it the first 
Hospital for the Insane erected. This property is said 
now to be worth a million and a half dollars. The his- 



266 UEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

tory of the origin and progress of this institution has 
been written and published more than once, and there 
has been no mention of my name in connection with it. 
For the truth of my statement see Senate Journal, 
1S43-4, page 521. The above injustice is my apology 
for naming the subject here." 

Dr. Cornett contributed a number of valuable papers 
on medical topics to various journals. In the Transac- 
tions of our state society he gave an admirable address 
on the "Use, Progress, State and Future Prosperity of 
Medical Science," 1850, 13. Also, "Report of the Com- 
mittee on the Practice of Medicine," 1852, 33. "A 
Case of Gangrene of the Foot from Ossification of the 
Leg," 1853, 151, and an exceedingly interesting report 
(from which I have already made an extensive quota 
tion) on "Professional Reminiscences," 1874, 30. See 
Robson, p. 60. See picture, I. M. J., Vol. xi. facing p 
321. 

COURTNEY, JAMES T.— Whitewater (1855-1886) 
S. T. 1887, 190. 

COWAN, JOHN A.— Auburn (1843-1885). S. T 
1886, 200. 

CRAPO, JOHN R.— Terre Haute (1850-1905). S 
T. 1906, 503. 

CRAVENS, SAMUEL C— Bloomfield (1839-1903) 
S. T. 1904, 351. I. M. J., Vol. xxii, 162. (Picture.) 

CRIPPEN, E. H— Milroy (1833-1896). S. T. 1896, 
262. 

CRIST, DANIEL O.— Indianapolis (1824-1899). S. 
T. 1899, 402. For a number of years he was a member 
of the faculty of the Central College of Physicians and 
Surgeons (Indianapolis), having charge of the depart- 
ment of materia medica and therapeutics. 

CROSBY, THE. H.— Bluffton (1818-1883). S. T. 
1883, 274. 

CROSS, JOSEPH B.— Bainbridge (1824-1889). S. 
T. 1889, 215. 

CROUSE, JEROME H.— Dayton (1843-1908). Dr. 
Crouse was a soldier of the Civil War, having served 
three years in the Tenth Indiana Light Artillery. He 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 257 

was a native of Dayton, and practiced there for twenty 
years. See memoir, I. M. J., Vol. xxvii, 3. 

CRUNKELTON, FRED. J.— Peru (1869-1896). S. 
T. 1896, 258. 

CULBERTSON, ROBERT H.— Brazil (1830-1899). 
S. T. 1900, 320. 

CUMMINS, BENJAMIN F.— Bluffton (1837-1887). 
S. T. 1887, 198. 

CUMMINGS, HIRAM A.— Clear Spring (1857- 
1905). S. T. 1906, 498. 

CURE, HIRAM W— Martinsville (1830-1900). S. 
T. 1901, 482. 

CURRAN, ROBERT.— Jeffersonville (1806-1872). 
Dr. Curran was born in Pennsylvania, April 3, 1806, 
and died at Jeffersonville, April 6, 1872. In the spring 
of 1832, he located in Shelbyville, where he remained 
two years. Then he removed to Charlestown. In 1838 
he located in Jeffersonville. In 1848 the Trustees of 
Indiana Asbury University, contemplating the estab- 
lishment of a medical department, Dr. Curran was in- 
vited to locate in Greencastle, and assist in its organ- 
ization. The invitation was accepted. On the meet- 
ing of the board it was found impracticable to con- 
summate their plans, but Dr. Curran was elected pro- 
fessor of physiology in the literary department, which 
chair he filled until the medical department was or- 
ganized, when with it he removed to Indianapolis in 
1850. In 1852, failing health compelled him to return 
to Jeffersonville. From 1853 to 1857, he served as 
physician to the Indiana State prison. In 1855 he was 
elected to the professorship of materia medica and 
therapeutics in the Kentucky School of Medicine. Dr. 
Curran was an earnest Christian. — Abridged from 
"Biographical Sketch," by Dr. F. A. Seymour, of Jef- 
fersonville, Trans. 1872, p. 133. 

Dr. Curran was present at the State Medical Con- 
vention, held at Indianapolis, June 6, 1849. He con- 
tributed a valuable article to the State Society, "Nos- 
ology of the Diseases' which have Prevailed in Clark 
County, Indiana, since 1833, with Remarks." Trans. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

1 S 7 2 . p. 121. Vice-president Indiana State Medical 
Society, 1850. 

CTJRRYER, WILLIAM T.— Indianapolis (1845- 
1002). I. M. J., Vol. xxi, 40. 

CURTIS, GEORGE L.— Columbus (1835-1898). S. 
T. 1898, 390. Dr. Curtis graduated in medicine from 
the Indiana Medical College in 1877, was professor of 
hygiene and sanitary science in the Indiana Medical 
College from 1883 to*1890, and at the time of his death 
was professor of diseases of the nervous system in the 
medical department of the University of New Orleans, 
having delivered a course of lectures in that institu- 
tion in 1897. While never engaging in the practice of 
medicine, he took a lively interest in everything per- 
taining to it. He was author of a number of books of 
a high order, pertaining to religious subjects. 

He was pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
Columbus, Indiana, at the time of his death, which oc- 
curred at Naples, Italy, April 1, 1898, while on a tour 
to the Holy Land. An interesting sketch of his life 
will be found in the Transactions named above, also I. 
M. J., Vol. xvi, 412. 

CUSHMAN, ARBACES.— Graysville (1840-1908). 
Jour. Ind. Med. Assoc, Vol. i, p. 205. Was a soldier 
of the Civil War. 

CUSHMAX, DANIEL W.— Terra Haute (1855- 
1907). S. T. 1907, 476. 

DAILEY, JAMES J.— Milton (1833-1879). S. T. 
1880, 230. 

DALGLEISH, HENRY T.— Vevay (1860-1902). S. 
T. 1902, 411. 

DANCER, JOHN.— South Milford (1830-1896). S. 
T. 1897, 362. 

DARRACH, GEORGE M.— Cumberland (1827-1910). 
Was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 20, 1827, and died 
at East St. Louis, Feb. 25, 1910. He came to Indian- 
apolis in 1853. He was one of the early members of 
the Marion County Medical Society, and was present 
at the session of the State Society in 1860, his name 
appearing in the list of members. In 1860 he removed 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 259 

to Xapoleon, where be practiced for several years, 
when he came back to Marion County, and located at 
Cumberland. During the last three years he made 
his home with a son in East St. Louis. 

DAVENPORT, HENDERSON D.— Sheridan (1846- 
1908). Jour. Ind. State Meu. Assoc, Vol. 1, 158. Was 
a soldier of the Civil War. 

DAVENPORT, THEODORE.— Warsaw (1828-1884). 
S. T. 1885, 221. Dr. Theodore Davenport was born in 
Sullivan comity, New York, Oct. 4, 1828. Completed 
his studies at the Albany Medical College, January, 
1851. After practicing at Oswego, and at Roanoke, 
Ind., he settled in Warsaw, April 5, 1857, and practiced 
there until the time of his death. 

At the session of the Legislature in 1875 he was 
elected one of the directors of the Northern Prison at 
Michigan City, Ind. He was president of the Board of 
Directors, and during his incumbency (two years) the 
north wing and a large workshop were added to the 
prison. 

DAVIDSON, GREENLEAF N.— Noblesville (1829- 
1893). He was a corporal in Company E, 168th Reg. 
Ohio Vols. He held the chairs of botany, therapeutics 
and materia medica in the Physio-Medical College of 
Indiana from 1873 to 1891. — Dr. W. A. Spurgeon. 

DAVIS, EUGENE F.— Indianapolis (1871-1903). S. 
T. 1903, 337. 

DAVIS, ROBERT P.— Portland (1836-1902). S. T. 
1902. 412. For a short time was assistant surgeon of 
the Eighty-fourth Reg. Ind. Vols. 

DAVIS, SAMUEL.— Indianapolis (1814-1886). S. 
T. 1886, 216. Was surgeon of the Eighty-third Reg. 
Ind. Vols. See I. M. J.,' Vol. iv, 223. 

DAY, SAMUEL D.— Shelbyville (1811-1893). S. T. 
1894, 218. 

DAYHUFF, A. F.— Kokomo (1827-1884). S. T. 1886, 
195. 

DE BRULER, JAMES P.— Evansville (1817-1874). 
Was born in Orange County, North Carolina, Sept. 21, 
1817; died Aug. 12, 1874. His parents moved to In- 



260 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

tliana when he was an infant and located on White 
River, in Pike County. At the age of 18 he began the 
study of medicine, graduating from the medical de- 
partment of the university at Louisville, Ky. He 
began the practice of his profession at Rockport, In- 
diana, where he remained nearly twenty years. He 
was married Sept. 2, 1847, to Miss Sarah E. Graham, 
daughter of Judge J. W. Graham, of Rockport, In- 
diana. Their son, Claude Graham De Bruler, was 
their only child. 

In 1858, Dr. De Bruler moved to Evansville, Indiana, 
where he lived until his death. During the adminis- 
tration of President Lincoln, he was appointed sur- 
geon in the Marine Hospital in this city (Evansville) , 
which position he filled for several years. When An- 
drew Johnson became President, without any solicita- 
tion on his part, Dr. De Bruler was appointed post- 
master, an appointment he declined without taking 
charge of the office, preferring to give his entire atten- 
tion to his profession. — Furnished by Dr. Edwin Wal- 
ker, Evansville. 

DE BRULER, JAMES P.— Evansville (1877-1909). 
Was born at Evansville, Indiana, June 25, 1877; died 
at San Juan, Porto Rico, May 7, 1909. Grandson of 
Dr. James P. De Bruler, and son of Claude De Bruler. 
Graduated from the Medical College of the University 
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 1899. He was med- 
ical officer in the Baldwin-Ziegler Polar Expedition 
of 1901-1902. In January, 1903, he entered the U. S. 
Navy; served at the Naval Hospital. Norfolk, Va., 
1903-1904; on duty at naval station Olongapo, P. I., 
May-July, 1904; on U. S. S. Elcaro August, 1904, to 
March 1906; was promoted to passed assistant sur- 
geon Jan. 3, 1906; at the navy yard, Washington, 
D. C, Aug. 1, 1906, to Sept. 25, 1906; on duty in 
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Navy Department 
and additional duty at Naval Medical School, Wash- 
ington, D. C, Sept. 26, 1906; on duty on board the 
U. S. S., Paducah remaining on duty until the day of 
his death. — Furnished by Dr. Edwin Walker, Evans- 
ville. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 261 

De BRULER, OLIVER E.— Ireland (1857-1892). S. 
T. 1893, 248. 

DEMLNG, ELIZUR H.— Lafayette (1797-1855). Dr. 
Deming was born in Great Barrington, Mass., March 4, 
1797. He was a graduate of Williamstown College, and 
was considered the best Hebrew scholar that ever 
graduated from that institution. The Greek and Latin 
languages were almost as familiar to him as the Eng- 
lish. In 1827 he received the degree of M.D. In 1821 
he removed to Chillicothe, Ohio, and began the practice 
of medicine, but being a Mason, and at that time the 
order being persecuted, he changed his residence. In 
1833 he received a commission as surgeon in the U. S. 
Army, but owing to the prevalence of cholera he re- 
signed and went home to care for his family. In 1834 
he located in Lafayette. In 1842 he defeated Hon. J. 
Petit for the legislature, running as an anti-slavery 
candidate. In 1846 he was appointed to the chair of 
materia medica and therapeutics in the Laporte Med- 
ical College. In 1853 he was appointed to the chair of 
general pathology and clinical medicine, in the Univer- 
sity of Missouri, and had just completed his second 
course before his decease. 

Before his appointment in Missouri, an informal cor- 
respondence was had with him by the Regents of the 
University of Michigan, in reference to his appoint- 
ment to the presidency of that institution. However, 
his anti-slavery views were an insuperable objection 
with those guardians of private opinion, whose astute- 
ness detected the dangerous heterodoxy, which the dull 
official perception of Missouri statesmen totally over- 
looked. "Of whom the world was not worthy!" He 
died Feb. 23, 1855. He was president of the state 
society in 1854, and delivered an address, found on 
page 14 of the Transactions for that year. The reader 
will find a beautiful and scholarly Bibliographical 
sketch of the late Dr. Deming, by the late Dr. John S. 
Bobbs, from which I have condensed the above, in State 
Transactions for 1857, p. 53. 

DEPEW, RICHARD J.— Indianapolis (1815-1897). 
I. M. J., Vol. xv, 471. 



262 MEDICAL HISTORY 01 INDIANA. 

DE YORK. BENRY V.— Greencastle (1854-1892). 
8. T. 1802. 293. 

DICKEX. JAMES L.— Lafontaine (1821-1900). S. 
T. 1000. 355. 

DILL. NATHANIEL C— De Soto (1860-1897). S. 
I. 1897. 355. 

DILLS. THOMAS J.— Fort Wayne (1847-1899). S. 
T. 1899. 410. Dr. Dills was a specialist of promise at 
the time of his early death. For some time he filled 
the chair of ophthalmology and otology in the Fort 
Wayne Medical College. In the Transactions named, 
Dr. Wheelock pays a fine tribute to Dr. Dills' memory. 
In the Transactions 1878, 92, he contributes a "Report 
of a Case of Basedow's or Graves' Disease," and in 
1884, 75, 'Two Cases of Intraocular Tumors, with Re- 
marks." He died at Pomona, California, while seeking 
relief from a lingering illness. 

DO AX.. X. W.— Curtisville (1829-1905). S. T. 1906. 
501. 

DOLPH. CASSIUS M.— Pleasant Lake (1860-1899). 
S. T. 1900, 322. 

DOXALDSOX, EBEXEZER F. — Wabash (1829 
1898). S. T. 1899, 383. 

DOOLEY, ALDIXE J.— Marion (1872-1906). S. T. 
1907, 484. 

DOWLIXG, HEXRY McCABE.— Xew Albany (1805- 
1852). Born April 5. 1805, and died Jan. 26, 1852. 
Was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. 
Was a member of the Medical Convention, June 6, 
1849.— Judge Dowling. 

DRAYER, PETER.— Hartford City (1840-1901). S. 
T. 1903, 338. 

DRYDEX, THOMAS F.— Clayton (1835-1896). S. 
T. 1896, 275. 

Du KATE, JOHX B.— Yincennes (1849-1902). S. 
T. 1903, 339. 

DUXHAM. YALEXTIXE.— Madison countv (1812- 
1882). S. T. 1882, 201. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 263 

DUNLAP, JOHN M.— Indianapolis (1829-1899). S. 
T. 1899, 408. From 1869 to 1872 he was demonstrator 
of anatomy in the Medical College of Indiana. Later 
he abandoned general practice and devoted himself to 
diseases of the nose and throat. See I. M. J., Vol. xvii, 
404. 

DUNLAP, LIVINGSTON. — Indianapolis (1799- 
1862). Was present at organization of State Medical 
Convention in 1849, and presided at that meeting. At 
this convention Dr. John H. Sanders was temporary 
and Dr. Livingston Dunlap permanent president. 

DUNNING, LEHMAN H. — Indianapolis (1850- 
1906). Was born at Edwardsburg, Michigan, April 12, 
1850, and died at Indianapolis, Jan. 4, 1906. He began 
the practice of medicine at Troy, Michigan, removed to 
South Bend, Indiana, in 1873, and to Indianapolis in 
1889, where he continued to reside until the date of his 
death. 

While residing at South Bend his work and contribu- 
tions to medical literature began to attract attention. 
Probably he was the first in the state to treat the float- 
ing kidney by fixation. He also did nephrectomy for 
suppurative diseases. His early gynecological papers 
are case reports with remarks, evincing thorough 
study, as they pertain to developmental deficiencies and 
anomalies of the uterus to pelvic peritonitis and to 
mammary and uterine cancer. A very interesting arti- 
cle may be read on "Report of a Case of Extirpation of 
the Kidney, with Remarks," Trans. 1887, 127. The 
patient made a good' recovery. 

Preparatory to removal to Indianapolis he spent 
some time abroad in the hospitals in Vienna, London, 
and Paris. On his return he was appointed adjunct 
professor of diseases of women in the Indiana Medical 
College. Upon the death of Dr. Thomas B. Harvey he 
was succeeded as professor of medical and surgical dis- 
eases of women by Dr. Dunning. This new field being 
opened, he rapidly developed as a lecturer and instruc- 
tor, until he became an expert teacher and operator. 

Honors came to Dr. Dunning. He was chosen to the 
office of president of the Indianapolis Medical Society, 
the Indianapolis Gynecological Society, and the Amer- 



204 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

iean Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 
and in 1905 Chairman of the Section on Gynecology of 
the American Medical Association. 

Professionally, Dr. Dunning died prematurely young. 
He "was a religions man and an ardent member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. 

(In the preparation of this article I am especially 
under obligation to the memorial address on the life 
and character of Dr. Dunning by Dr. Hugo 0. Pant- 
zer.) See Stone, p. 144, with portrait. Also editorial, 
I. M. J. (with later portrait), Vol. xxiv, 266. 

DUZAN, GEORGE N.— Indianapolis (1841-1893). 
Stone, p. 608. He contributed two papers to the State 
Society: "Nature and Cure of Disease." Trans. 1871, 
133, and "Cholera Infantum," Trans. 1873, 27. See L 
M. J., Vol. xii, 219. R. M. of Ind., Dist. 9, p. 9. 

D WIGGINS, MOSES F.— Richmond (1852-1890). 
S. T. 1890, 161. 

EASTMAN, JOSEPH. — Indianapolis ( 1842-1902 ) . 
S. T. 1903, 340. Dr. Eastman was born in Fulton 
county, New York, Jan. 29, 1842. His early education 
was limited. For three years past the age of eighteen 
he worked at the trade of a blacksmith. In 1861 he 
was a member of the Seventy-seventh New York Vol- 
unteers, and during actual conflict in battle showed 
himself to be a brave soldier. After the battle of Will- 
iamsburg he was taken sick and was sent to Mount 
Pleasant Hospital, Washington, D. C. After his recov- 
ery he was appointed hospital steward in the United 
States Army and graduated from the University of 
Georgetown in 1865. Until 1866 he served as a sur- 
geon in the U. S. Volunteers and was mustered out at 
Nashville, Tenn., the same year. Dr. Eastman en- 
gaged in general practice of medicine and surgery, first 
in Clermont and later in Brownsburg, Indiana, and in 
1875 located in Indianapolis, when he became demon- 
strator of anatomy in the college of physicians and 
surgeons in that city. At the organization of the Cen- 
tral College of Physicians and Surgeons, in 1879, Dr. 
Eastman accepted the chair of anatomy and clinical 
surgery and was one of the most prominent members 




JOSEPH EASTMAN. 



266 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

of tlu> faculty. At a later period he became its presi- 
dent and the title of his chair was changed to diseases 
of women and abdominal surgery, continuing in this 
department of medicine, in which he became so emi- 
nent, until his death. From 1886 his practice was 
limited to diseases of women and abdominal surgery. 
Hirst's Obstetrics, Vol. ii, page 267-270, gives him 
credit for being the second in the world and the only 
American surgeon who, in operating for extra-uterine 
pregnancy, lias dissected out the entire sac which con- 
tained a living child, and saved the life of both mother 
and child. In 1891 Wabash College conferred upon 
him the degree of LL.D. For many years Dr. Eastman 
had been a contributor to the more prominent medical 
journals of the United States and he has been given 
credit for a considerable amount of original work in 
the department of abdominal surgery. Most of the 
instruments which he used were either invented by 
himself or an improvement upon the ideas advanced by 
others. He was one of the founders of The Medical 
and Surgical Monitor. He contributed a number of 
valuable papers to the State Society: "Upward Dis- 
location of the Sternal End of the Clavicle," Trans. 
1878, 98; "Excision of the Knee Joint, with Cases," 
Trans. 1879, 108; "A Few Thoughts on the Anatomy, 
Surgery and Hygiene of the Rectum," Trans. 1883, 
155; "Four Cases of Abdominal Surgery, with Com- 
ments," Trans. 1884, 82; "Abdominal Surgery, with 
Cases and Comments," Trans. 1885, 96; "A Case of 
Hysterectomy, with Practical Comments on Laparo- 
tomy," Trans. 1887, 133; "Ovarian Statistics— Twenty- 
one Cases," I. M. J., December, 1886, 379. 

Dr. Eastman was among the first, if not the first 
abdominal surgeon in Indiana to operate in doubtful 
cases. Prior to his time surgeons hesitated to operate 
in critical cases for fear of a high mortality record. 
He was fearless, and saved many valuable lives in his 
own practice, and taught other surgeons to do like- 
wise. "By rare force of character, determination and 
hard work he advanced himself to a position of 
acknowledged learning and skill in surgery, gaining a 
fame which was both national and international, and 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 207 

his personality made a strong impression upon patients 
and doctors alike." — Dr. Theodore Potter. See Stone, 
p. 150; I. M. J., Vol., xxi, 40. Also "A Sketch," by 
Dr. Samuel E. Earp, Med. and Surgical Monitor, June, 
1902 (with portrait), from which much of the above 
information was derived. He was the first in America 
to operate in extra-uterine pregnancy of the tubal 
variety, dissecting out the entire sac. Mother and 
child were saved. — American Journal of Obstetrics, 
Vol. xxi (September, 1888). 

EGBERT, GEORGE.— Marion (1823-1886). S. T. 
1887, 189. 

EICHELBERGER, WILLIAM C— Terre Haute 
(1840-1903). S. T. 1903, 342. 

ELBERT, SAMUEL A.— Indianapolis (1832-1902). 
I. M. J., Vol. xxi, 91. 

ELDER, ELIJAH S.— Indianapolis (1841-1894). S. 
T. 1895, 400. Dr. Elder was secretary of the State 
Medical Society from 1879 to 1894, and its president 
at the time of his death. He filled several chairs in 
the Medical College of Indiana, was professor of the 
principles and practice of medicine from 1888 until 
his death and dean from 1890. He contributed to the 
State Society a number of valuable papers: "Morbo 
Lacteo," Trans. 174, 113; "Immediate Placental Deliv- 
ery in Natural Labor," Trans. 1879, 93; "Placenta 
Previa: Occult Hemorrhage and Malpresentation," 
Trans. 1880, 216; "Observations Upon and Glances at 
Some Health Resorts in the United States, West of 
the 100th Meridian," Trans. 1882, 152; "Etiology of 
Pneumonia," Trans. 1886, 161; "Pyrexia, Hyper- 
pyrexia and Fever," Trans. 1891, 111. See biograph- 
ical sketch, Stone, 156; also I. M. J. (A.W.B.), Vol. 
xii, 437. 

ELLIS, CHARLES S.— Wabash (1824-1895). Served 
faithfully as a soldier in the Eighth Reg. Ind. Vols., 
and later Lieut.-Col. of the 153rd Reg. Ind. Vols. I. 
M. J., Vol. xiii, 337. 

ELLIS, HAMILTON E.— Greencastle (1826-1880). 
S. T. 1881, 241. 



268 MEDICAL HISTORY OF IWDIAWA. 

ELROD, MOSES X.— Columbus (1838-1907). S. T. 
1907, 474. 

ESPY, JAMES 0.— New Palestine (1845-1881). S. 
T. 1885, 213. 

EVANS, JOHX.— Died July 3, 1897, aged 83 years. 
At one time he was superintendent of the Indiana 
State Insane Asylum. In 1848 he bcame a lecturer in 
Rush Medical College. He was instrumental in found- 
ing Evanston, 111., and for a time president of Xorth- 
western University at Evanston. He was an ex-gov- 
ernor of Colorado, in which state he died. I. M. J., 
Vol. xvi, 79. 

EVERTS, ORPHEUS.— Cincinnati (1826-1903). Dr. 
Everts was born at Salem, Indiana, Dec. 26, 1826. He 
graduated from the Indiana Medical College at La- 
porte in 1846, and later at University of Michigan, 
and Rush Medical in 1867. He served as surgeon of 
the Twentieth Ind. Vols, in the Civil War. In 1868 
lie was made superintendent of the Central Hospital 
for Insane, a position he occupied with honor for 
eleven years. Later he assumed charge of the Cincin- 
nati Sanitarium as superintendent, which position he 
held at the time of his death, June 20, 1903. See for 
biographical sketches, Robson, p. 582, Stone, 161, and 
I. M. J., Vol. xxii, 36. (Picture.) 

FAXXIXG, FREDERICK W.— Butler (1841-1906). 
I. M. J., Vol. xxv, 195. 

FARQUHAR, ALLEN H.— Ridgeville (1835-1904). 
S. T. 1904, 352. 

FARQUHAR, URIAH.— Logansport (1795-1872). 
Was born at Fredericksburg, Maryland, Jan. 5, 1795. 
Ten years later he moved to Wilmington, Ohio, where 
a few years later he began his medical studies, which 
he finished at Cincinnati, Ohio. After several years' 
practice in Ohio, he came to Logansport, Indiana, in 
1836, and continued the practice of his profession until 
a short time before his death, which occurred Xov. 3, 
1872. He never lived in Wabash. — Mary Farquhar 
Peters, Logansport, daughter. 

Dr. Farquhar was present at the medical convention 
held at Indianapolis, June, 1849, and wrongly credited 



UEDWAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 209 

to Wabash, in the proceedings. At this meeting he 
was elected a vice-president. Strange, his first name is 
not given anywhere in the various transactions. — 
G. W. H. K. 

FEATHERSTON, JOHN R.— Indianapolis (1841- 
1886). S. T. 1886, 215. 

FERGUSON, DAVID.— Union City (1813-1884). S. 
T. 1884, 221. 

FERREE, FRANK M.— Indianapolis (1856-1889). 
S. T. 1890, 155. 

FERREE, SHADRACH L.— Indianapolis (1830- 
1901). S. T. 1901, 483. 

FERRIS, SAMUEL.— New Castle (1822-1902). S. 
T. 1902, 413. 

FIELD, NATHANIEL.— Jeffersonville (1805-1888). 
Dr. Field was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, 
Nov. 7, 1805. In the fall of 1829 he located in Jeffer- 
sonville. In 1839 he was a member of the State Legis- 
lature. He was one of the first anti-slavery men of 
the West; inherited several valuable slaves and soon 
afterward emancipated them. He was surgeon of the 
Sixty-sixth Reg. Ind. Vols, during the Civil War. He 
was president of the State Medical Society in 1869. 
He contributed a number of valuable papers to medical 
journals and also to the State Society. The following 
papers appear in the Transactions: "Cholera," 1868, 
114; "The Troubles and Responsibilities of the Med- 
ical Profession," address, 1869, 1; "Thoracentesis," 
1872, 77; "The Expectant Mode of Medication," 1873, 
31; "The Etiology of Endemic Fevers," 1882, 84; "A 
Notice of Bacteria Microscopy," 1883, 100, and "Blood 
Poisoning," 1887, 93. In the latter article he refers 
to the case of the late President Garfield. Died at 
Jeffersonville, Aug. 18, 1888. See Robson, 173. R. M. 
of Ind. Dis. 3, p. 17. 

FISHBACK, CHARLES. — Indianapolis 18— 
1862). In 1859 Dr. Fishback removed from Shelby- 
ville to Indianapolis. He was a very prominent man 
of marked ability, although somewhat given to hob- 
bies. He took an active part in the affairs of the 



270 MEDICAL BISTORT OF INDIANA. 

local and of the State Medical Societies. On one occa- 
sion he and Dr. P. H. Jamison were appointed on a 
committee to apply to the Legislature for such laws as 
the profession needed. In speaking of him, Dr. J. 
says: "I found him a hard worker, persistent and 
strenuous, but with all of our efforts we accomplished 
but little." 

He met his death in 1862 in a most tragic manner. 
Lawrence M. Vance, a prominent citizen, died suddenly 
after a day or two of illness of what was undoubtedly 
spotted fever, although it was not recognized as such 
at the time; it appeared later in the community. An 
autopsy was had and in some way Dr. Fishback punc- 
tured one of his fingers; this was followed by a viru- 
lent blood poisoning in a few days which resulted in 
death. He was a devoted member of the Presbyterian 
Church. — Dr. Frederick C. Warfel, Indianapolis. 

While a resident of Shelbyville, Dr. Fishback made 
a valuable "Report of the Committee on Medical Edu- 
cation." Trans. 1859, p. 17. Also, a second report on 
same subject, Trans. 1860, p. 56. These reports are 
well worth a perusal at the present day. Was vice- 
president of the State Medical Society, I860.— G. W. 
H. K. 

FISHER, SAMUEL.— Greencastle (1823-1887). S. 
T. 1888, 207. 

FITCH, GRAHAM N.— Logansport (1808-1892), a 
native of New York, located in Logansport in 1834. 
In 1844 he was appointed to a professorship in the 
Rush Medical College. He occupied the chair of Pro- 
fessor of Principles and Practice of Surgery in the 
Medical College of Indiana for four years, and was 
Emeritus Professor at the time of his death. 

Dr. Fitch was a prominent politician. He was a 
member of the Indiana Legislature from 1836 to 1840. 
From 1848 to 1852 he represented his district in Con- 
gress, and from 1856 to 1861 he was United States 
Senator from Indiana. 

His grandfather was a soldier of the Revolution; 
his father of the war of 1812, and Dr. Fitch himself 
rendered A T aluable service in the Civil War as Colonel 
of the Forty-sixth Reg. Ind. Vols. 




WILLIAM B. FLETCHER 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 271 

He died in Logansport, Nov. 28, 1892, at the ripe 
age of 84. (Stone, 161.) Also I. M. J., Vol. xi, 214. 
R. M. of Ind., Dist. 10, p. 17. 

FLETCHER, WILLIAM B.— Indianapolis (1837- 
1907). S. T. 1907, 496. Dr. Fletcher was a man of 
varied attainments, as physician and scientist. His 
experience comprised soldier, physician, teacher, author 
and specialist, and in every department he was with 
the advance guard. The scope of this work will not 
admit of details. The reader is referred to the follow- 
ing references for his larger history: Physicians and 
Surgeons of the U. S., Robson, 129, Stone, 163, and Dr. 
R. H. Ritter has furnished an excellent biographical 
and obituary notice in the Transactions, 1907, 496, and 
in the same volume, 498, James Whitcomb Riley pays 
him a pretty compliment in a poem entitled "The Doc- 
tor." 

His medical and scientific papers were compre- 
hensive and numerous. To the State Society he fur- 
nished the following, in Transactions: "Human 
Entozoa," 1866, 88; "Cerebral Circulation in the In- 
sane," 1887, 105; "Purulent Absorption Considered as 
a Cause of Insanity," 1892, 164, and "The Effects of 
Alcohol Upon the Nervous System," 1895, 335. Por- 
trait, frontispiece, 1907. I. M. J., xxv, 439. (Picture.) 

FLORER, THOMAS W.— (1822-1907). S. T. 1907, 
483. Dr. Florer was a native of Ohio, and came to 
Indiana when he was 10 years old. He graduated 
from the Ohio Medical College in 1850, and began 
practice at Alamo, and later removed to Crawfords- 
ville. In 1849 Dr. Florer was a delegate to assist in 
the organization of the Indiana State Medical Society 
at Indianapolis, and was made one of the vice-presi- 
dents. At the beginning of the Civil War he was made 
surgeon of the Twenty-sixth Reg. Ind. Vols, and served 
until 1866. At the close of the war he made his home 
at Meridian, Miss., until 1875, when he removed to 
Waxahachie, Texas, where he continued to practice 
medicine until 1905. During the administrations of 
Presidents Arthur and Harrison he served as postmas- 
ter at his home. 



272 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

In 1899 he attended the golden jubilee of the In- 
diana State Medical Society, held at Indianapolis, 
being one of four living charter members of the State 
Society, namely, William H. Wishard, Thomas W. 
Florer, John M. Gaston, and Patrick H. Jameson. I. 




THOMAS W. FLORER. 

M. J., Vol. xxv, p. 500. See pictures of the four per- 
sons named, Trans. 1899, facing p. 9. 

FORD, JAMES.— Wabash (1812-1898). Dr. Ford 
was a native of Ohio, born Jan. 19, 1812, and died at 
Wabash, Dec. 30, 1898. Was the second man in Wabash 
to enlist in the Civil War. Was surgeon of the Eighth 
Ind. Vols., then a brigade surgeon, and in 1863, when 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 273 

he resigned, a medical director. See T. M. J., Vol. 
xvii, 281. R. M. of Ind. Dist. 11, p. 15. 

FORD, JOSEPH H.— Auburn (1823-1905). S. T. 
1905, 445. 

FRANCE, JOHX W.— Dunkirk (1858-1889). S. T. 

1892, 279. 

FREEMAN, WILLIAM.— Camden (1809-1883). S. 
T. 1S83, 280. For a short time was surgeon of the 
Seventh Reg. Ind. Cav. and Fifty-Second Ind. Inf. 

FRINK, CHARLES S.— Elkhart (1835-1893). S. T. 

1893, 261. Was commissioned by the President, As- 
sistant Surgeon of Volunteers, Oct. 4, 1862, promoted 
to Surgeon, March 3, 1864, and to Brevet Lieut. -Col., 
Aug. 15, 1865. 

FRY, THOMAS W.— Lafayette (1814-1873). S. T. 
1874, 183. Dr. Fry first practiced at Crawfordsville 
and later at Lafayette, where he died, Feb. 24, 1873. 
He was surgeon for some time of the Eleventh Reg. 
Ind. Vols. Dr. S. G. Irwin, of Crawfordsville, con- 
tributes a biographical sketch in the Transactions 
named. In the volume named, p. 107, Dr. W. W. Vin- 
nedge, of Lafayette, contributes a record of an inter- 
esting mal-practice suit in which Dr. Fry sued for a. 
bill, and was successful. Contributed to State Medical 
Society, "Medical Inhalation." Trans. 1860, 30. 

FUNKHOUSER, DAVID.— Indianapolis ( 1820- 
1886). S. T. 1894, 212n. Dr. Funkhouser was born in 
Virginia, May 31, 1820. Graduate of Bethany Col- 
lege, Va., 1845, and of Jefferson Medical in 1847, and 
soon afterwards located in Indianapolis, where he 
lived, and died July 21, 1886. He was a prominent 
physician of our capital. I have a kindly remembrance 
of the good doctor who vaccinated me in 1861, as I 
was on my way to the Civil War. See a very inter- 
esting and beautiful tribute to his memory by Dr. P. 
H. Jameson, Trans. 1894, 212n. 

GADDY, NELSON D.— Seymour (1831-1901). I. 
M. J., Vol. xix, 446. Contributed "A Few Thoughts 
Concerning Systematic Prevention of Disease." Trans. 
1883, 63. 



•274 UEDWAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

GALBRA1TH, THOMAS S.— Seymour (1846-1904). 
S. T. 1904, 353. He began practice in Bartholomew 
county, but removed to Seymour in 1870. Here he 
continued in practice up to the time of his death, ex- 
cept from 18S7 to 1889. when he was superintendent of 
the Central Hospital for the Insane, and from 1895 to 
1897, when he conducted a similar institution in Okla- 
homa. See Stone, 179. 

GALL, ALOIS D.— Indianapolis (1814-1867). Was 
assistant surgeon and later surgeon of the Thirteenth 
Reg. Ind. Vols. Stone, 179. (Picture.) 

GAREY, DUMONT.— New Albany (1855-1906). S. 
T. 1906, 492. 

GARVER, JOHN JAMES.— Indianapolis (1845- 
1901). S. T. 1901, 484. Dr. Garver was a soldier of 
the Civil War, and upon his return home pursued the 
study of medicine, graduating at the Ohio Medical Col- 
lege in 1876. He immediately located at Indianapolis. 
He contributed an article on "Asiatic Cholera" to the 
State Society. Trans. 1885, 195. See Stone, 180. 

GASTON, JOHN M.— Indianapolis (1818-1901). S. 
T. 1901, 485. Dr. Gaston was born in Newbury, Penn- 
sylvania, Sept. 25, 1818, and died at Indianapolis, Jan. 
11, 1901. He graduated at the University of New 
York in 1848. While a student there he witnessed the 
introduction of chloroform by Dr. Valentine Mott and 
to Dr. Gaston was given the honor of first using it in 
Indianapolis. (Dr. Theodore Potter.) He was one of 
the organizers of the Indiana State Medical Society in 
1849, and was one of the four survivors at the golden 
jubilee in 1899. The portraits of the four, Drs. W. H. 
Wishard, T. W. Florer, J. M. Gaston and P. H. Jame- 
son, are given on the same page of the Transac- 
tions for 1899, 8. Dr. Gaston was the first to pass 
away, and then Dr. Florer, in 1907. 

In 1850 he went to California with others in search 
of gold, and returned two years later. He contributed 
an article on "Propylamin in Rheumatism." Ind. 
Jour, of Med., Vol. i, 353. See I. M. J., Vol. xix, 316. 

GATCH, JAMES D.— Lawrenceburg (1831-1907). 
Dr. Gatch was born at Milford, Clermont county, Ohio, 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 275 

March 5, 1831, and died Jan. 27, 1907. Was assistant 
surgeon of the Sixteenth Reg. Ind. Vols. President 
State Medical Society, 1890. He contributed to the 
State Society, "Harmony and Associated Action in 
Connection with State Medicine," Trans. 1880, 153. 
President's address, "What of the Day?" Trans. 
1890, 5. 




JOHN M. GASTON. 

GAUSE, THOMAS.— Greensfork (1846-1882). S. T. 
1883, 268. 

GEIS, JOHN F.— Indianapolis (1868-1904). S. T. 
1904, 354. "He was born and reared in Indianapolis. 
With a special interest in chemistry, he took post- 
graduate work at De Pauw University under Dr. P. 



276 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

S. Baker, whose assistant lie afterward became in ili<> 
Medical College of Indiana. He was promoted in the 
department of medical chemistry until, after the death 
of Dr. Baker, he became his successor in the full chair 
of chemistry and toxicology." — Dr. Theodore Potter. 
He is the author of a work entitled "Physiological 
and Clinical Chemistry," December, 1902. See I. M. 
J., Vol. xxii, 415. 

GERPJSH, JAMES W. F.— Seymour (1831-1883). 
S. T. 1884, 212. Dr. Gerrish was assistant surgeon 
and later surgeon of the Sixty-seventh Reg. Ind. Vols. 
His voice and pen were always on the right side of 
every moral reform. See Memoriam, I. M. J., Vol. ii, 
109. R. M. of Ind. Dist. 3, p. 19. 

GIFFORD, THOMAS.— Laurel (181G-1885). S. T. 
1886, 199. 

GLASGO, THOMAS A.— Brazil (1839-1908). Jour. 
Ind. State Med. Assoc, Vol. i, 367. 

GOLDSBERRY, JOHN A.— Bloomingdale (1835- 
1901). I. M. J., Vol. xix, 403. Was assistant surgeon 
First Heavy Artillery (21st) Reg. Ind. Vols. 

GOOD, ALONZO H.— Muncie (1843-1908). Jour. 
Ind. State Med. Assoc, Vol. i, 439. Was a soldier in 
the Sixty-ninth Reg. Ind. Vols. 

GOSS, JAMES M.— Freedom (1840-1892). S. T. 
1892, 288. 

GRAHAM, ANDREW E.— Richland (1824-1897). 
S. T. 1898, 384. 

GRANT, GEORGE H.— Richmond (1868-1908). Dr. 
Grant was elected president of the Indiana State Med- 
ical Society in 1905 and presided at the session of 
1906; title of address was "Medical Education and 
Medical Progress," Trans. 1906, 1. He contributed a 
number of articles to medical journals. See I. M. J., 
Vol. xxiv, 40. J. I. S. M. A. (with excellent portrait), 
Vol. i, 401. 

GRAVIS, CHARLES M.— Martinsville (1845-1908). 
Was a soldier of the Civil War, and for some time a 
prisoner in Libby and Andersonville. He practiced 
medicine in Martinsville for twentv-five vears. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 277 

GRAY, JOHN M.— Noblesville (183C-1899). I. M. 
J., Vol. xviii, 140. Was surgeon of the Thirty-ninth 
Reg. Ind. Vols. 

GRAY, SAMUEL C— Warsaw (1821-1883). S. T. 
1883, 276. 

GRAYSTON, FREDERICK S. C— Huntington 
(1823-1898). S. T. 1898, 398. Born in England, he 
emigrated to America in 1850. Graduated at the 
Rush Medical College in 1863. In 1886 he was elected 
to a professorship in the Fort Wayne Medical College, 
filling for several years the several chairs of diseases 
of children, theory and practice of medicine, and path- 
ology. 

GREEN, CHARLES H.— North Vernon (1833-1891). 
Dr. Green was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, Jan. 
26, 1833. Began the practice of medicine at Butler- 
ville, Jennings County, Indiana, in 1857. In 1858 he 
moved to North Vernon and continued to practice 
until his death, June 7, 1891. He was a member of the 
first County Medical Society organized in the county 
and was a member at the time of his 1 death, and always 
took an active part in the society. — Dr. J. H. Green, 
son, North Vernon. 

GREEN, JAMES W.— Shelbyville (1825-1896). S. 
T. 1897, 346. 

GREEN, LOT.— Rushville (1847-1905). S. T. 1905, 
440. 

GREGG, HENRY.— Roanoke (1815-1887). S. T. 
1887, 195. 

GREGG, JAMES S.— Fort Wayne (1830-1890). S. 
T. 1890, 160. Dr. Gregg was a native of Pennsyl- 
vania. Graduated at Jefferson College in 1866, after 
having attended one course of lectures in Cleveland in 
1855. He located in Fort Wayne in 1866. He was 
president of the State Society in 1886. He contributed 
the following named articles to the State Society, and 
published in the Transactions: "Medical Education," 
1876, 107; address, "Glimpses of a Few of the Beacon 
Lights of Medical History," 1886, 2. In 1886, 135, 
and 1889, 179, each, "Locomotor Ataxia," in which he 
describes his own case, dying one year later from the 



27S MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

disease, Jan. 18, 1890. Surgeon of Eighty-eighth Keg. 
Ind. Inf. 

GREGG, VINCENT H.— Connersville (1825-1895). 
S. T. 1896, 256. Surgeon 124th Reg. Ind. Vols. 

GRIFFIS. ROBERT.— Middletown (1827-1909). He 
located in Middletown in 1853, and continued to reside 
there until his death, Nov. 18, 1909. 

GUYER, 0. K.— Lewisville (1853-1902). S. T. 1902, 
414. 

HADLEY, EDWIN.— Richmond (1824-1890). S. T. 
1891, 280. 

HADLEY, EVAN.— Indianapolis (1845-1903). Dr. 
Hadley was for thirty years a leading practitioner of 
Indianapolis. He was consultant at the City Hos- 
pital for nearly twenty-five years and for fifteen year3 
held medical clinics before the college students at the 
hospital. His numerous reports of hospital and clin- 
ical cases were always full of interest. He contributed 
a number of papers to the State Society, which ap- 
pear in the Transactions; "Addison's Disease — Report 
of a Case," 1885, 55; "Emmenagogues." 1886, 82, and 
"Biliousness," 1895, 127. Two years prior to his 
death, which occurred May 12, 1903, he was compelled 
to relinquish practice owing to organic heart disease, 
and removed to his boyhood home at Mooresville, 
where he passed away cheered by the Christian's hope. 
I. M. J., Vol. xxi, 528. Picture on p. 528. 

HAGGERTY, ROBERT J.— Elkhart (1822-1880). 
S. T. 1880, 229. 

HAINES, ABRAM B.— Aurora (1823-1887). S. T. 
1888, 216. R. M. of Ind. Dist. 4, p. 15. 

HALL, WESLEY C— Franklin (1830-1899). I. M. 
J., Vol. xviii, 361. Was a soldier in the Civil War. 

HALLANAN, JOSEPH.— Logansport (1850-1909). 

HAM, LEVI J.— South Bend (1805-1887). Was a 
native of Maine. He removed to South Bend prior to 
the Civil War, and was surgeon of the Forty-eighth 
Reg. Ind. Vols. Robson, 135. R. M. of Ind. Dist. 13, 
p. 30. 



MVDICAL HISTORY OF IX DIANA. 279 

HAMMOND, FRANCIS J.— Indianapolis (1837- 
1895). S. T. 1895, 409. Was a native of England, and 
came to America in July, 1887. During the Russo- 
Turkish War, for a period of eighteen months, he prac- 
ticed medicine and surgery in Constantinople. He 
located in Indianapolis soon after his arrival in the 
United States. He was a close friend to Luther 
Holden and Sir James Paget. His death was due to 
leucocythemia, and occurred Feb. 1, 1895. See I. M. 
J., Vol. xiii, 385. 

HARDING, MYRON H., Sr.— Lawrenceburg (1810- 
1883). S. T. 1886, 205. He was elected president of 
the State Society in 1865, and has contributed the fol- 
lowing articles to that organization, as shown by the 
Transactions: "Report of Committee on Practice of 
Medicine," 1853, 24; "President's Address," 1866, 21, 
and "Notes on an Epidemic of Erysipelas and Puer- 
peral Fever, at Manchester, Indiana, during the winter 
of 1842-3," 1885, 114. See Robson, 103. R. M. of 
Ind., Dist. 4, p. 31. 

HARDING, MYRON H., Jr.— Lawrenceburg (1855- 
1879). S. T. 1880, 241. 

HARDMAN, JACOB.— South Bend (1804-1885). Dr. 
Hardman was born in Virginia, April 29, 1804, and 
died at South Bend July 21, 1885. He located in South 
Bend in August, 1831, and practiced until 1859, when 
he retired from active work. 

He rendered medical services at Camp Morton, dur- 
ing the early part of 1861, and later for a time at 
Nashville, Tenn. He helped to organize the first 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and also Sunday School 
in South Bend. He was a member of the first medical 
society, and president of the first temperance society 
in the county. — Miss Margaret Hardman, Marion, Ind., 
Daughter. 

HARGROVE, WILLIAM S.— New Salem (1843- 
1894). S. T. 1895, 203. 

HARRIS, RICE C— Ellettsville (1834-1894). S. T. 
1895, 406. 



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MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 



HARRIS, WILLIAM C— Roachdale (1827-1901). 
S. T., 1901, 486. 

HARROD. SANFORD H.— Canton (1827-1888). S. 
T. 18SS, 199. 

HARTLOFF, RICHARD.— Evansville (1845-1900). 
S. T. 1901, 487. 







THOMAS B. HARVEY. 



HARVEY, THOMAS B.— Indianapolis (1827-1889). 
S. T. 1S90, 158. Dr. Harvey was a native of Ohio. Gradu- 
ated at the Ohio Medical College in 1852. Practiced 
at Plainfield from 1852 to 1862, when he removed to 
Indianapolis, where he remained until his death, Dec. 
5, 1889, dying from a stroke of apoplexy, received 
while delivering a lecture. He was elected president 
of the State Medical Society in 1880. He stood high 
as a physician, gynecologist, author and teacher. His 



MEDICAL EISTOBY OF INDIANA, 281 

friends were numerous, and his personal magnetism 
attracted physicians and students. He wrote valuable 
articles for medical journals, and contributed a num- 
ber to the State Society: "Report on New Remedies," 
1861, 39; "'Puerperal Eclampsia," 1863, 37; "Preven- 
tion and Treatment of Laceration of the Perineum," 
1871, 113; "The Advance in Medicine — Address," 
1881, 1; "Laceration of the Cervix Uteri," 1883, 245; 
"Synopsis of Paper on Laparotomy," 1886, 65; 
"Ovarian Disease Complicated by Pregnancy," 1887, 
150, and "Conditions Rendering Diagnosis Difficult in 
Pelvic and Abdominal Diseases," 1888, 100. For an 
excellent biographical sketch, see Stone, 209. See also 
"Memorial Remarks on the Late Dr. Thomas B. Har- 
vey," by Drs. A. W. Brayton, James F. Hibberd, 
William Lomax, William H. Wishard and L. H. Dun- 
ning, Transactions, 1890, 168. Also I. M. J., Vol. viii, 
153. (Editorial.) 

HARVEY, WILLIAM F.— Plainfielcl (1825-1901). 
I. M. J., Vol. xix, 315. 

HASTY, GEORGE.— Indianapolis (1835-1905). At 
different times he occupied the chairs of chemistry, 
anatomy and surgery, and also dean, of the Physio- 
Medical College of Indiana. For some time he was 
editor and publisher of the Physio-Medical Journal. — 
Dr. W. A. Spurgeon. 

HAUGHTON, RICHARD E.— Richmond (1827- 
1909). Was born in Fayette county, Dec. 8, 1827, and 
died June 4, 1909. Dr. Haughton was elected president 
of the State Medical Society in 1874, and presided at 
the session of 1875. He was quite a contributor to' 
medical journalism. His contributions to the State 
Society were recorded in the Transactions as follows: 
"A Report on the Treatment of Syphilitic Diseases, 
Without the Use of Mercury," 1859, 23; "Report of 
the Committee on Diphtheria," 1860, 51; "Epidemic 
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis," 1865, 47; "The Pathology 
and Treatment of Cholera," 1866, 60; "Tracheotomy 
in Cynanche Trachealis, Diphtheria and Laryngitis," 
1867, 122; "Reduction of Dislocation of the Hip; Prin- 
ciples of the Flexion Method," 1870, 71; "Influence in 



282 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

Disease of the Nervous System," 1871, 143; "The 
Pathology of Malignant and Semi-malignant Growths," 
1S72, 11; "Lithotomy, with Report of a Case," ib., 85; 
"On Thrombosis of the Arteries of the Extremities, 
with an Illustrative Case," 1873, 37; "Does Anything 
Pass the Capillaries Except Normal Blood Cells?" 
1874, 83; "President's Address: Life, Mind, Force or 
Vital Dynamics" 1875, 1; "Dilatation and Contrac- 
tion of Blood Vessels and Tubular Structures," 1877, 
61; "A Case of Fracture of the Cervical Spine," 1879, 
144, and "Amputation at the Knee-joint," 1881, 75. 

He was a practitioner for sixty years, one-half of 
that time at Richmond. 

HAYMAKER, GEORGE W.— Charleston (1831- 
1900). S. T. 1901, 488. 

HAYMOND, WILLIAM S.— Indianapolis (1823- 
18S5). S. T. 1886, 211. Dr. Haymond was a native 
of West Virginia, and came to Monticello in 1851. 
Entered the service in 1861 as assistant surgeon of the 
Forty-sixth Reg. Ind. Vols. In 1874 he was elected a 
member of Congress. In the spring of 1877 he located 
in Indianapolis, and in 1879 was elected to the chair 
of surgery in the Central College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, which he continued to hold until his death, 
Dec. 24, 1885. He contributed to the State Society an 
article on "The Collapsed State of Cholera," Trans. 
1S67, 100, and a second article on "Human Longevity," 
ib., 1880, 73. For biographical sketch see Stone. 212. 
See also I. M. J., Vol. iv, 156. R. M. of Ind., Dist. 7, 
p. 85. 

HAYS, FRANKLIN W.— Indianapolis (1858-1908). 
Born in Eldorado, Ohio, April 2, 1858. While yet a 
boy his parents removed to Columbus, Indiana. He 
graduated from the Medical College of Indiana in 
1880. For a time he was assistant to the chair of 
chemistry and toxicology in his Alma Mater. Later 
he lectured on dermatology and venereal diseases, and 
was made superintendent of Bobbs Free Dispensary. 
Eventually he was elected to the chair of materia 
medica, therapeutics and dermatology, and was made 
secretary of the college. See sketch, I. M. J., Vol. 
xxvi, 412. For biographical sketch see Stone, 63G 



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HAYES, GEORGE C— Hillsboro (1836-1903). S. 
T. 1904, 355. 

HEADY, WILLIAM S.— Jamestown (1849-1903). S. 
T. 1903, 344. 

HEATWOLE, JOSEPH H.— Goshen (1853-1899). S. 
T. 1900, 324. Born in Kansas, April 6, 1853. Gradu- 
ated at the Ohio Medical College in 1878. In 1883 
located in Goshen. Was once mayor of that city. 
Early in the Spanish-American War was commis- 
sioned as major and commissary of volunteers. At 
the close of the war he remained and became one of 
Gen. Woods' most efficient officers. His official duties 
did not exact any professional duties of him, but real- 
izing that his services were needed for fever subjects, 
he went to their relief, and succumbed to yellow fever, 
at Santiago de Cuba, July 7, 1899. 

HEAVEXRIDGE, ALLEN. — Stilesville (1829- 
1902). S. T. 1902, 415. 

HEDGES, ISAAC B.— Clinton (1820-1883). S. T. 
1883, 275. 

HELM, JEFFERSON.— Rushville (1803-1888). R. 
M. of Ind., Dist. 6, p. 36. 

HELM, JOHN C— Muncie (1812-1872). 

HELM, JOHN H.— Peru (1826-1899). He was a 
native of Tennessee. Located in Peru in 1860. He 
served one year in the Mexican War. Was elected 
president of the State Medical Society in 1875, and 
delivered an address at the following session. Trans. 
1876, 1, on "State Medicine." For biographical sketch 
see Robson, 52. I. M. J., Vol. xvii, 453. 

HENDERSON, HARVEY D.— Salem (1819-1896). 
S. T. 1896, 270. 

HENDERSON, JAMES T.— Covington (1846-1905). 
S. T. 1905, 447. 

HENNING, ROBERT.— Jeffersonville (1847-1897). 
S. T. 1897, 358. 

HENSLEYi JOHN H.— Madison (1857-1897). S. T 
1897, 36L 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

HEXTHORXE, LEWIS S.— Indianapolis (1846- 
1895). He was a soldier of the Civil War (8Cth Ohio 
Vols.). Professor of Physiology in the Indiana Dental 
College. I. M. J., Vol. xiii, 415. 

HERRMANN, JOHN.— Logansport (1834-1899). S. 
T. 1900, 325. 

HERVEY, FRANK F.— Fortville (1856-1893). S. 
T. 1893, 215. 

HERVEY, JAMES W.— Indianapolis (1819-1905). 
S. T. 1905, 448. He was one of the very early mem- 
bers of the State Society, and was a contributor to its 
Transactions: "The Utility of Force and Its Con- 
trolling Influences in Medicine," 1873, 99; "A State 
Board of Health and an Asylum for Chronic Inebri- 
ates," 1876, 133; "How to " Secure Medical Legisla- 
tion," 1877, 51; "Some of the Unsolved Problems of 
Public Hygiene and Synteretic Jurisprudence," 1880, 
162; "Mental Hygiene." 1881, 37. He was asst.-sur- 
geon of the Fiftieth Reg. Ind. Vols. He was known 
as the father of the State Board of Health. He was an 
uncompromising temperance man, and more than fifty 
years ago wrote and published "The Scroll and Locket, 
or The Maniac of the Mound; a Temperance Tale." 
See I. M. J., Vol. xxiii, 332. Also see interesting 
sketch, Stone, 215. 

HESS, LUTHER W.— Cadiz (1821-1883). S. T. 
1883, 278. 

HIBBERD, JAMES F.— Richmond (1816-1903). S. 
T. 1904, 356. Medical societies, and especially our 
State Society, were lonesome when Dr. Hibberd left 
this world. He was elected president of the State 
Medical Society in 1862, and presided in 1863, and 
was chosen president of the American Medical Asso- 
ciation in 1893, and presided in 1894. His contribu- 
tions to the former were numerous, and always in- 
structive: "Report of Committee on Medical Educa- 
tion," 1861, 22; "Inflammation, as Seen by the Light 
of Cellular Pathology," 1862, 40; "President's Ad- 
dress," 1863, 11; "The Liver," 1865, 30; "Bile," 1807, 
56; "Pathology of Diphtheria," 1868, 17; "Progress of 
Medicine," 1871, 201; "Infantile Convulsions— What 




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286 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

Should be the Treatment During the Paroxysm?" 
L878, 53; "Bacteria," 1882, 179; "Post-partum Hemor- 
rhage," 1884, 112, and 1885, 131; "Disinfectants," 
1886, 53; "Myxedema — Report of a Case with Com- 
ments," 18S9, 26; "Inflammation — Past and Present," 
1892, 41; "Relation of Matter and Mind in Hypno- 
tism," 1895, 306. He also made an annual report on 
Xecrology from 1881 to 1899. 

Verily, it may be said of Dr. Hibberd that he rests 
from his labors and his works do follow him. For 
biography see: Robson, 59; Stone, 216; I. M. J., Vol. 
xii, 23; I. M. J., Vol. xxii, 162; Am. Biog. Hist, of 
Eminent and Self-made Men of the State of Indiana, 
1880, 6th Dist., 38. 

HICKAM, WILFRED.— Spencer (1856-1904). S. 
T. 1905, 450. 

HIGDAY, TOMPKIXS.— Laporte (1820-1876). S. 
T. 1880, 236. Dr. Higday contributed the valuable his- 
torical article on "The Indiana Medical College, La- 
porte, from 1842 to 1850," Trans. 1874, 24. He was a 
graduate of the institution just named (1847) and 
filled the chair of physiology and general pathology 
in it from the date of his graduation until the dissolu- 
tion of the school, 1850. He was twice appointed sur- 
geon during the Civil War, but was hindered from 
service because of ill health. 

HIGGLXS, CARTER B.— Peru (1843-1894). S. T. 
1895, 407. See sketch by B. R. Graham, I. M. J., Vol. 
xiii, 240. 

HIGHMAN, LOUIS.— Xew Harmony (1845-1879). 
S. T. 1880, 227. 

HILBURX, EBER W.— Washington (1837-1897). 
S. T. 1898, 382. 

HITT, WILLIS WASHIXGTOX, Vincennes (1801- 
1876), was born Feb. 11, 1801, and died Aug. 17, 1876. 
Graduated at a medical college in Baltimore, about 
1822. After a service of one or two years in a hospi- 
tal in that city, he located in Hagerstown, Md. In 
1825, he removed to Vincennes, Indiana, where he con- 
tinued in practice until the day he had been in practice 
fifty years, when he retired. Was present at the med- 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 287 

ical convention, June, 1849. — Dr. A. B. Knapp, Vin- 
cennes. 

HOBBS, WILSON.— Knightstown (1823-1892). Dr. 
Hobbs was born at Salem, Ind., Aug. 21, 1823, and 
died July 24, 1892. He was a remarkable man in 
many respects. He touched life in all its salient 
points — family, school, church, citizen, soldier, doc- 
tor — and in every relation did his duty. He was faith- 
ful and active in his county and state societies. To 
the latter he contributed a number of papers: "Dis- 
ease of the Skull; Four Operations for Removal," 
Trans. 1870, 101; "Chloroform and Chloral in the 
Treatment of Puerperal Convulsions," 1871, 51; 
"President's Address — Alcohol and Its Use," 1874, 1; 
"Counter Injuries of the Pelvis," 1876, 95; "The Med- 
ical Witness," 1877, 33; and 1878, 13; "Strangulated 
Hernia — Two Puzzling Cases," 1885, 46, and "Some 
Observations in the Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus," 
1886, 70. He was surgeon of the Eighty-fifth Reg. 
Ind. Vols, in the Civil War. He presided as presi- 
dent of the State Society at session of 1874. Biog- 
raphy, Robson, 97; also, "Personal Estimate of Dr. 
Hobbs as a Physician," by Dr. J. F. Hibberd. I. M. 
J., Vol. xi, 49; ob. ib., 55. 

HOMBURG, CONRADIN. — Indianapolis ( 1798- 
1881). He was born November, 1798, in the Palatinat, 
Germany. He studied medicine at Marburg and Wiirz- 
burg, and came to this country in 1826, as a political 
fugitive. For a time he was editor of the "Weltbote" 
at Germantown, Pa. In 1836 he removed to Shelby- 
ville, Ind., where he began the practice of medicine. 

In the year 1843, Judge Morrison, of Indianapolis, 
licld court in Shelbyville in a case of alleged poisoning, 
in which a physician was implicated. Dr. H. was 
called as an expert. The whole town took interest in 
the outcome of the trial because both physicians were 
known to be enemies. Dr. H. pointed out to the court 
the symptoms of various poisons, and reached the con- 
clusion that it was not a case of poisoning, and his 
enemy was acquitted. Then the judge arose, and ex- 
tending his hand to Dr. Homburg, said: "You are a 



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man we need at Indianapolis'; come, yon are welcome." 
At Indianapolis Dr. Homburg was the physician and 
friend of Morrison, Talbott and Drake families, and 
was a personal friend of Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton. He 
died Feb. 11, 1881.— Letter from Dr. Guido Bell, In- 
dianapolis. 

HORNBROOK, WILLIAM P.— Union (1828-1883). 
S. T. 1884, 211. Asst. surg. Forty-second Reg. Ind. 
Inf. 

HORNE, SAMUEL S.— Jonesboro (1843-1908). 

HOWARD, ELIJAH J.— Hazelton (1831-1882). S. 
T. 1883, 269. 

HOWARD, NOBLE P., Sr.— Greenfield (1822- 
1895). S. T. 1896, 254. Born in Wayne county, Ohio, 
Sept. 11, 1822, and came to Brookville in 1836. Was 
assistant surgeon of the Twelfth Reg. Ind. Vols, in the 
Civil War. Died Aug. 25, 1895. 

HUDLESON, LUCIUS R.— Milroy (1861-1905). S. 
T. 1906, 500. 

HUGHS, JOHN.— Dearborn county (1816-1880). S. 
T. 1880, 245. 

HUMPHREYS, LOUIS.— South Bend (1816-1880). 
Born in Springfield, Ohio, Sept. 21, 1816. First prac- 
ticed at Laporte, and removed to South Bend in 1844. 
He entered the military service in 1861 as surgeon of 
the Twenty-ninth Reg. Ind. Vols. In 1878 was elected 
president of the State Society, but later resigned. He 
has contributed to State Transactions a "Report on 
the Interchange of Published Transactions," 1858, 34, 
and "Conservative Surgery," 1878. 6,0. For biography 
see Robson, 109. R. M. of Ind., Di'st. 13, p. 34. 

HUNT, TIGHLMAN.— Plainfield (1838-1906). S. T. 
1906, 496. 

HUTCHINSON, DAVID— ( Formerly Mooresville) 
(1812-1891). Dr. Hutchinson was born in Lesmehaga, 
Scotland, in 1812, and came to America in 1829. He 
had begun the study of medicine in the city of Glas- 
gow. He then came to the United States, and at Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, he continued his studies under Dr. Jud- 
kins. He completed his course and graduated from the 



UEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 289 

Medical College of Ohio. He commenced the practice 
of medicine at Steubenville, Ohio. From there he 
moved to Shelbyville, Ind., and married at that place. 
He then moved to Puthamville, Putnam county, 
Indiana: and from there to Mooresville, Indiana. He 
practiced there until he was commissioned by Governor 
Morton, on Dec. 12, 1802, Military Agent at Nashville, 
Tenn., to look after the condition and welfare of the 
Indiana. Regiments in the field, and especially the sick 
and wounded in the hospitals belonging to the State of 
Indiana. On March 21, 1863, he was commissioned by 
Governor Morton, surgeon of the Thirtieth Regiment, 
Indiana Infantry, and served as such until August 8, 
when he was discharged from the service on account 
of disability, at "Winchester, Tenn., and returned to his 
home at Mooresville, Ind. He wound up his business 
there and removed to Winterset, Madison county, 
Iowa, in September, 1863, and practiced medicine, and 
conducted a drug business until April, 1889. He then 
moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa, so as to be with his 
children, and practiced his profession until his death, 
March 31, 1891. His remains were taken back to Win- 
terset, Iowa, and buried in the family lot, on April 2, 
1891. His last sickness was of about two weeks' dura- 
tion, and he was nearly eighty years of age at death. He 
was an active member and worker in the Presbyterian 
church. — D. J. Hutchinson, son, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
He was elected president of the State Society in 
1859, presiding in 1860. He contributed the following 
papers to the society (See Transactions) : "Report on 
Microscopic Pathology, 1856, 37. "Report on Micro- 
scopy," 1858, 28. "President's Address," 1860, 13. 
"Report on the Advances of Uterine Pathology and 
Therapeutics," 1862, 35, and "Fevers of Indiana," 
1864, 29. He was the recipient of the Fiske Fund 
Prize Essay on "Stomatitis Materna," June 3, 1857 : 
"What Are the Causes and Nature of That Disease 
Incident to Pregnancy and Lactation Characterized by 
Inflammation and Ulceration of the Mouth and Fauces, 
Usually Accompanied by Anorexia, Emaciation and 
Diarrhea; and What is the Best Mode of Treatment." 



2!R) 



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Published in the Am. Jour. Med. Sci., Vol. xxxiv, 369 
(18 pages), October. 1857.— G. W. H. K. 

ENLOW, JOHN J.— Manila (1826-1896). S. T. 
1896, 263. 

IXSLEY, WIILIAM Q.— Terre Haute (1827-1880). 
S. T. 1881, 233. 




PATRICK H. JAMESON. 



IRWIN, LUTHER M.— Lafayette (1855-1903). S. 
T. 1904, 357. 

IUTZI, JOSEPH.— Richmond (1846-1902). S. T. 
1903, 345. He contributed an interesting article on 
"Heredity and Its Relation to Disease," Trans. 1882, 
136. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 291 

JACKMAN, FRANK.— Milroy (1855-1884). S. T. 
1885, 217. 

JAMESON, PATRICK H.— Indianapolis (1824- 
1910). Dr. Jameson was born in Jefferson County, 
Indiana, April 18, 1824, and died at Indianapolis, 
October 7, 1910. He located in Indianapolis in Sep- 
tember, 1843, and remained there until his death. He 
was a public spirited citizen, and his influence was felt 
in all departments of state and city government, fill- 
ing many offices of honor and trust. He was present 
at the State Medical Convention, June 6, 1849, and 
was next to the last of the number to pass away, being 
survived by Dr. W. H. Wishard. He contributed an 
article to the State Society on "Veratrum Viride," 
Trans. 1857, p. 35, also an article on "Memoirs of the 
Professional Lives of Drs. John S. Bobbs, Charles 
Parry, Talbott Bullard and David Funkhouser," Trans. 
1894, p. 212a. On the 16th day of December, 1909, 
on the anniversary of my 70th birthday, I sent a card 
to Dr. Jameson, and received a letter from him, in 
which he wrote: "I now wait patiently — not unhappily 
— like a passenger at some lonely way station for a 
delayed train which shall bear me to my destination. 
But still, in the final accounting, our lives will be 
measured not by their duration, but by their achieve- 
ments." Peace to his memory. For a detailed biog- 
raphy see Stone, p. 249.— G. W. H. K. 

JESSUP, ROBERT B.— Vincennes (1828-1893). He 
was surgeon of the Twenty-fourth Reg. Ind. Vols.. 
later a brigade surgeon, and later division surgeon 
under Gen. A. P. Hovey. In 1891 he was appointed 
Surgeon General of Indiana by Governor Hovey. See 
I. J. M., Vol. xii, 249. 

JEWETT, LUTHER.— Lafayette (1805-1872). He 
practiced medicine in Lafayette about thirty-seven 
years. Obit., I. J. M., Vol. iii, 297. 

JOBES, GEORGE a.— Indianapolis (1823-1906). I. 
M. J., Vol. xxiv, 359. 

JOHNSON, CHARLES S.— Fountain County (1824- 
1885). S. T. 1886, 209. 



292 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

JOHNSON, LEMUEL R.— Cambridge City (1824- 
1889). Robson, 020. He has contributed an article. 
"Abstract of Reports Presented to the Cambridge City 
Medical Association." Trans. 1856, 34; also, "Thoughts 
on Asiatic Cholera," Trans. 1866, 46. 

JOHNSON, NATHAN.— Cambridge City (1794- 
1872).""" Dr. Johnson was born in Loudoun county, 
Virginia, Dec. 14, 1794. He graduated at one of the 
medical schools of Philadelphia in 1835, and located in 
Cambridge City in 1836. Here he practiced medicine 
for thirty-five years, when the lot of the practitioner 
was a hard one. He was present at the formation of 
the State Medical Society, in June, 1849. At the ses- 
sion of 1858 he was elected president of the state 
society, and presided in 1859, but delivered no address. 
"Dr. Johnson was not only an influential physician, 
much honored in his profession, but he was a great 
factor in the abolition movement of those earlier 
times; a great admirer of William Lloyd Garrison, 
Wendell Phillips, John Whittier, and others of the 
same school. Many times he has entertained Frederick 
Douglass in his own home, as he came west, making 
speeches in behalf of 'My People.' He lived to see the 
slave liberated — one of the greatest joys of his de- 
clining years." — Letter from Mrs. Clarissa Johnson 
Hall, a grand daughter. 

JOHNSON, THOMAS W.— Marion (1838-1894). S. 
T. 1895, 414. Was a first lieutenant in the First Wis. 
Cav. Reg. Later was assistant surgeon Sixth Mo. Cav. 
Reg., and still later was in charge of the general hos- 
pitals at Ironton, Mo., and general prison hospital at 
Alton, 111. 

JONES, CALEB V.— Covington (1812-1883). S. T. 
1884, 213. Was surgeon of the First Reg. Ind. Vols, 
in the Mexican War, and surgeon of the Sixty-third 
Reg. Ind. Vols, in the Civil War. He located in Cov- 
ington in 1840, and was the first president of the Foun- 
tain Countv Medical Society (.1867). 



* He was the father of Dr. Lemuel R. Johnson, and 
grandfather of Hon. Henry U. Johnson, of Richmond, ex- 
congressman. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 293 

JONES, HIRAM G.— Evansville (1824-1884). S. T. 
1885, 215. 

JONES, ROBERT E.— Indianapolis (1847-1891). S. 
T. 1892, 284. 

JONES, T. B.— Lynnville (1841-1902). S. T. 1903, 
340. 

JOSSE, JOHN M.— Ft. Wayne (1818-1880). S. T. 
1S80, 231. Dr. Josse was born in Germany, July 17, 
1818. He was a graduate from Heidelberg in 1843. He 
was engaged with Carl Schurz and Franz Sigel in the 
German rebellion in 1848, and fled with them to Amer- 
ica. He located in Ft. Wayne in 1855, where he re- 
mained until his death, April 30, 1880. He was sur- 
geon of the Thirty-second Reg. Ind. Vols. Dr. Beck has 
contributed a beautiful tribute to his memory in the 
Transactions named. 

JUDKINS, ELAM I.— Greenfield (1830-1890). S. 
T. 1890, 167. 

JUMP, SAMUEL V.— New Burlington (1822-1887). 
S. T. 1888, 204. See also Am. Biog. Hist, of Eminent 
and Self-made Men of the State of Indiana, 1880, Sixth 
Dist., 44. In 1869 he represented his county (Dela- 
ware) in the State Legislature. He was active in the 
formation of the Delaware County Medical Society in 
1865. 

JUSTICE, JOHN H.— Greenfield (1854-1902). S. T. 
1903, 347. 

KAPPEL, JOHN H.— Ft. Wayne (1870-1898). S. 
T. 1899, 397. 

KAUTZ, JOHN.— Dora (1834-1907). I. M. J., Vol. 
xxv, 450. Was a soldier of the Civil War. 

KEEGAN, CHARLES J.— Millersburg (1832-1907). 
S. T. 1907, 495. 

KELSEY, JEREMIAH S— Converse (1842-1893). S. 
T. 1894, 220. 

KELSO, REESE D.— Waveland (1866-1896). S. T. 
1897, 349. 

KEMPF, E. J.— See I. M. J., Vol. xxiii, 331. 

KEMPF, MATHEW.— Ferdinand (1827-1880). S. 
T. 1881, 231. Born in Germany, and came to Indiana 



294 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

when three years old. Was demonstrator of anatomy 
tor a time in the University of Louisville. Member of 
the Indiana Legislature in 1859. Wrote on various 
scientific subjects, especially those relating to ethnol- 
ogy. A lecture on the "Wandering Cainidae, or the 
Ancient Nomads," delivered to the medical society of 
Dubois county, April 22, 1879, ranks high in that class 
of literature. 

KEMPF, PAUL H.— Ferdinand (1861-1896). S. T. 

1897, 344. 

KENNEDY, SAMUEL A.— Shelbyville (1835-1900). 
I. M. J., Vol. xix, 122. 

KERSEY, SILAS H.— Centreville (1818-1903). He 
was born in Guilford County, North Carolina, Dec. 9, 
1818, and died in Centrevilie March 26, 1903. Came 
to Indiana when seven years of age. He was a gradu- 
ate of the University of Michigan and began practice 
at Mt. Etna, and later removed to Lewisville, Ind. 
He entered the military service in 1861, and September 
9 of the same year was appointed assistant surgeon of 
the Thirty-sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteers, and on 
March 20, 1862, he was commissioned surgeon of the 
same regiment. Later he was a brigade surgeon and 
was honorably discharged Sept. 19, 1864. After the close 
of the war he resumed practice in Richmond, later 
removed to Preble County, Ohio, where he practiced 
for twelve years, when he again removed to Centre- 
ville, where he continued to practice until a short 
time before his death. 

KERSEY, VIERLING. — Richmond ( 1809-1875 ) . 
Born in Guilford County, North Carolina Sept. 8, 
1809, and died at Richmond, June 3, 1875. Graduate 
of Ohio Medical College. Began practice at Knights- 
town in 1838. In 1840 located in Carthage; in 1841 
removed to Spiceland, where he remained a few months, 
when he removed to Marion, where he remained until 
1844, when he removed to Milton. In 1861 he located 
in Richmond, where he remained until his death. Dr. 
Kersey was elected president of the State Society in 
1866, and presided in 1867. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 295 

He contributed a number of papers to the State 
Medical Society: "An Abstract of the Keports to the 
Cambridge City Medical Association for April, 1855," 
Trans. 1855, 22. "This Comprises Meteorological Re- 
port for 1854-5," ib. 25. "Cerebrospinal Meningitis," 
1865, 57. "Cholagogues and the Indications for their 
use," 1866, 30. "President's Address — Physic and 
Physicians," 1867, 46. "Review of Biliary Function," 
1868, 24. "Why Doctors Disagree, " 1869, 10. "Med- 
ical Rank in the United States Navy," 1870, 133. 
"Case of Muscular Atrophy," 1871, 129. "Case of 
Obscure Disease, Probably Chronic Glanders," 1873, 
19. See interesting obituary — "In Memoriam — Vierl- 
ing Kersey," signed by Drs. J. R. Weist, Joel Penning- 
ton, and S. S. Boyd. Trans. 1876, 146. Portrait facing 
title-page Trans. 1876. 

KESSINGER, ELLIS M.— Sandborn (1857-1905). S. 
T. 1905, 451. "His death was due to an infection re- 
ceived while treating one of his patients, while per- 
forming an operation, for which he did not expect, nor 
did he receive one cent of remuneration." — Dr. W. E. 
Kessinger. 

KETCHAM, JOHN D.— Tunnelton (1865-1900). S. 
T. 1901, 490. 

KINDERMANN, ALEXANDER. — Eugene (1858- 
1905). S. T. 1905, 452. 

KING, ENOCH W.— New Albany (1846-1882). S. 
T. 1882, 270. Dr. King was an enlisted man in the 
Sixty-sixth Reg. Ind. Vols., and was severely wounded 
in the right lung at Resaca, Ga., May 15, 1864. He 
collected and arranged two valuable articles on "Sta- 
tistics of Placenta Prsevia," which he read before the 
State Medical Society, Transactions 1879, 43, and 1881, 
168. 

KING, WILLIAM F.— Centerville (1824-1892). S. 
T. 1892, 290. Was, at first, assistant surgeon of the 
124th Reg. Ind. Vols., and later promoted to surgeon of 
the 147th Reg. Ind. Vols., serving until the close of the 
war. 

KNEPFLER, NATHAN.— Indianapolis (1803-1859). 
S. T. 1859, 46. Born in Arad, Hungary, October, 1803. 



296 UEDICAL HISTORY OP INDIANA. 

In 1853 he immigrated to the United States, and 
located the same year in Indianapolis. He was a mem- 
ber of the State Medical Society, and at the session of 
1S5S made a "Report on the Uses and Abuses of Mer- 
cury," Trans. 1858, 3G. 

Dr. Knepfler was a scholar, being familiar with 
Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, German, French, 
Italian and, to a less extent, English. He loved the 
society of scholars of the class of Dr. Parvin. He was 
a Jew, and he clung with great tenacity to Moses and 
the Prophets; at the same time he was charitable to 
other faiths, and saw in Christ the most Divine of 
prophets, but still could not believe Him to be the 
Messiah promised Israel. Family bereavements came 
heavily upon him, and while visiting a son at Shelby- 
ville, Ky., he died at that place, Jan. 10, 1859. — From 
an obituary notice by his friend, Dr. Parvin, Trans. 
1859, 4G. 

LAMB, JAMES.— Aurora (1818-1894). S. T. 1894, 
227. 

LAMMERS, FRANK H.— Greencastle (1864-1900). 
S. T. 1900, 326. I. M. J., Vol. xviii, 436. 

LARKFN, JOHN B.— Mitchell (1833-1901). S. T. 
1902, 417. Assistant surgeon and surgeon of the Seven- 
teenth Reg. Ind. Inf. 

LARUE, BENJAMIN.— Portland Mills (1848-1891). 
S. T. 1891, 285. 

LASH, HUGH M.— Indianapolis (1844-1903). S. T. 
1904, 358. He was a native of Ohio, and first practiced 
at Athens, in that state. Located in Indianapolis in 
1890. At the time of his death he was a member of the 
City Board of Health, and was lecturer on the physi- 
ology of the nervous system and clinical psychiatry, in 
the Medical College of Indiana. For several years 
prior to death he had given most acceptable clinical 
lectures at the Central Hospital for the Insane. He 
was a frequent contributor to medical journals, and 
contributed an article to the state society in 1892, on 
"Cerebral Localization," Trans. 1892, 150. See biog- 
raphical sketch in I. M. J., Vol. xxii, 159. Also, "An 
Appreciation Prepared by Dr. Theodore Potter," on 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 297 

same page. Also, memorial resolutions at a called 
meeting of the Indianapolis Medical Society, Sept. 19, 
1903, ib. 161. Portrait facing October number of same 
journal. 

LATTA, MILTON M.— Goshen (1822-1899). S. T. 
1900, 328. It is claimed for Dr. Latta that he per- 
formed the first vaginal hysterotomy in the state of 
Indiana. At an early date he performed successful 
ovariotomies that would reflect credit on the surgeon 
of to-clay with our advanced ideas and technique of 
modern surgery. He contrived a number of surgical 
appliances, and suggested some improvements in com- 
bining nitrite of amyl and chloroform as an anesthetic. 
In November, 1870, he removed a multilocular tumor 
which weighed sixty-one and a half pounds. The young 
woman made a good recovery. Ind. Jour, of Med., Vol. 
i, 292. See Eobson, 548. See his reminiscences of a 
half century, I. M. J., Vol. xi, 20. Also, "Medical and 
Surgical History of Elkhart County." Trans. 1875, 
p. 82. 

LAWDER, WILLIAM G— Brooksburg (1841-1890). 
S. T. 1891, 281. 

LAWRENCE, AMOS O.— Indianapolis (1849-1879). 
S. T. 1880, 239. 

LAYMAN, DANIEL W — Putnamville (1808-1887). 
Dr. Daniel Wunderlich Layman was born Sept. 24, 
1808, in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, near Port Re- 
public. His medical education was more complete than 
the average medical student received in those days, 
for he also attended medical lectures at the Jefferson 
Medical College at Philadelphia for one year, 1828- 
1829. After this one year's course at Philadelphia he 
commenced to practice at Port Republic and Mt. 
Meridian, Virginia. Dr. Layman left Virginia August, 
1831. Before leaving, his uncle, George Imboden, 
father of Gen. John B. Imboden, gave him a very fine 
horse and open buggy. His destination was Terre 
Haute, Ind. Hearing that the country along the Wa- 
bash River was full of malaria, he first drove up to 
Philadelphia, in order to amply supply himself with 
quinin. While there he equipped himself with the 



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UEDWAL HISTORY OF IXDIAXA. 



necessary medicines and instruments to begin practice 
in a western town. From Philadelphia he drove to 
Cumberland. Md.: from the latter place he started 
west over the old National road. He remained over 
in Indianapolis one or two nights and was asked to 
locate there permanently, but the place did not appeal 




DANIEL W. LAYMAX 



to him. At Putnamville, forty-two miles west of 
Indianapolis, his horse became lame and he was ob- 
liged to stop here until his horse recovered. Here he 
met his future wife. Miss Mary H. Davis Townsend 
the daughter of the inn-keeper. This settled the ques 
tion of his future location. He practiced medicine 
here from 1831 to 1887, not only in and around Put 
namville, but also in the adjoining counties, namely 
Owen, Clay, Vigo, Parke, Montgomery, Hendricks, Mor 
gan and Marion. He was a man of iron constitution 
During the winter season he often made use of three 
riding horses. Some of his trips on horse-back were 
quite extended. At one time he was known to ride 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 209 

from Putnamville to Indianapolis and return in one 
day, where he went for vaccines and vaccine virus, and 
then after he returned home rode sixteen miles in the 
country to visit a sick patient. His son, Mr. James 
T. Layman, recalls that his father often left Putnam- 
ville at 2 a. m. on horseback for Indianapolis, and re- 
turned by 2 o'clock in the afternoon. 

Dr. Layman was a typical old fashioned country 
practitioner in every sense of the word. He was 
highly esteemed by the people in the community who 
not only called him for medical advice, but also for 
advice in matters other than medical. He took an 
active part in the affairs of the community and also 
was active in politics, but never allowed himself to be 
nominated for a political position. In fact, he once 
declined a nomination for Congress. He never used 
alcoholic beverages nor tobacco in any form. His 
attitude towards temperance no doubt had a great 
weight in influencing the community along this line. 
He died at Putnamville, Aug. 10, 1887. — Letter from 
Dr. Daniel W. Layman, Grandson, Indianapolis. Most 
of Dr. Layman's descendants live in Indianapolis. Mr. 
James T. Layman, the only son who is living, is pres- 
ident of the Layman-Carey Hdw. Co. of Indianapolis. 
Three of Dr. Layman's descendants are now practicing 
physicians in Indianapolis. They include two grand- 
sons, Dr. Francis O. Dorsey and Dr. Daniel W. Lay- 
man, and one great-grandson, Dr. John L. Kingsbury. 
— G. W. H. K. 

LEATHERMAN, JOSEPH H.— Valparaiso. (1810- 
1886). S. T. 1886, 214. 

LENNOX, FRANK.— Marion (1840-1802). S. T. 
1802, 287. 

LEONARD, SOMERVELL E.— New Albany, (1804- 
1854). Dr. Leonard was born at Baltimore, Md., 
Oct. 28, 1804, and died at New Albany, Aug. 8, 1854. 
He was present at the medical convention that met 
at Indianapolis, June 6, 1840. — Miss Lydia Townsend, 
New Albany. 

LESLIE, ALEXANDER.— Petersburg (1815-1887). 
S. T. 1888, 201. 



300 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

LEWIS, GEORGE C— Madison (1855-1907). S. T. 
1007. 488. 

LIGHT. AMOS B.— North Vernon (1843-1901). S. 
T. 1902, 418. 

LINGLE. RICHARD W.— Orleans (1838-1901). S. 
T. 1002. 419. 

LIXX. TIMOTHY T.— Bourbon (1831-1896). S. T. 
1896, 273. 

LIXXVILLE. LEWIS M.— Columbia Citv (1860- 
1896). S. T. 1896, 274. 

LINTON, SAMUEL M.— Columbus (1809-1889). S. 
T. 1890. 159. Was president of the State Society in 
1864. See ob.. I. M. J.. Vol. viii. p. 180. 

LITTLE, H. A.— Linton (1871-1899). S. T. 1900. 
329. 

LOMAX. COXSTAXTIXE.— Marion (1814-1884). S. 
T., 1885, 214. 

LOMAX. WILLIAM.— Marion (1813-1893). S. T. 
1893, 259. Was born in Guilford county. North Caro- 
lina, March 15, 1813, and died at Marion in 1893. He 
was a graduate of the University of New York. At the 
beginning of the Civil War he was appointed surgeon 
of the Twelfth Indiana Infantry, and later, medical 
director of the Fifteenth Army Corps. 

He was elected president of the Indiana State Med- 
ical Society in 1855 and presided in 1856. In 1866, 
when it was changed into a delegated body, he took an 
active part in the plan of reorganization. He was a 
faithful attendant at the sessions of the society and a 
frequent contributor of valuable articles: "Observa- 
tions of Meteorological Facts in Connection with Dis- 
eases," Trans. 1851, 7; "Report on Surgery," 1858, 23; 
"Responsibility of Physicians and the Objects and 
Duties of the Indiana State Medical Society," 1871, 97: 
"Two Cases of Perityphlitis," 1877, 91; "A Case of 
Ovariotomy and Recovery," 1880, 108; "Injury of Head 
with Fracture of Skull," 1880, 134; "Case of Delivery 
by Embryotomy Without the Use of Cutting Instru- 
ments," 1882, 49: "Chronic Alcoholism," 1885, 27. 




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MEDICAL II I STORY OF INDIANA. 301 

At the present day, when the term "perityphlitis" 
has given way to "appendicitis," it is interesting to 
turn back one-third of a century and read the paper 
of Dr. Loiriax on perityphlitis. Briefly, the report is as 
follows: In September, 1874, he was called to see a 
^oung man suffering from a pain in the "right iliac 
fossa." He died in great pain a few days later. Dec. 
30, 1875, he was called to the same home to attend a 
brother of the deceased, who was suffering in a similar 
manner, and this brother died on the fourteenth day. 
A post-mortem examination of the latter revealed "an 
abscess beneath the cecum, walled in by adhesions." 
How familiar the term, walled in oy adhesions sounds a 
third of a century after Dr. Lomax penned it ! He says 
further: "There was not the least trace of appendix 
verrniformis to be found, nor opening in the intestine 
through which this substance could have forced its 
way." His paper is interesting as showing the natural 
history of a case of appendicitis. 

For a time he held the chair of surgery in the Fort 
Wayne Medical College. He held the position of presi- 
dent of the board of trustees of the Medical College of 
Indiana for several years, and a short time before his 
death made a gift in property to that college that was 
valued at more than fifty thousand dollars. 

Dr. Lomax lived and died a true type of a noble 
physician and a Christian gentleman. Stone, 284. Also 
I. M. J., Vol. xi, 373, with portrait, and Jour. Am. Med. 
Assoc, Vol. xx, 614. R. M. of Ind., Dist. 11, p. 26. 

LONG, JEREMIAH H.— Terre Haute (1821-1880). 
S. T., 1881, 237. 

LOVETT, JOHN A.— Goodland (1839-1903). I. M. 
J., Vol. xxii, 123. 

LUMMIS, .JOSEPH E.— Maxwell (1866-1898). S. 
T. 1899, 385. 

LYONS, IRA E.— Huntington (1822-1898). He 
located in Huntington in 1861, where he began to prac- 
tice, and continued until the date of his death, Feb. 7, 
1898. He was for some time a member of the faculty 
of the Fort Wayne College of Medicine, first filling 



302 MEDICAL EI8T0RY OF INDIANA. 

the chair of materia medica and therapeutics, and 
afterwards of obstetrics. He was a native of New 
Castle, Delaware. 

LYONS, LEWIS D.— Attica (1816-1888). S. T. 1888, 
215. 

LYONS, WILLIAM B.— Huntington (1818-1899). 
He located in Huntington in 1851 and practiced medi- 
cine there until his death, which occurred from being 
struck by an engine while crossing a railroad track, 
on May 22, 1899. 

MACLEAN, GEORGE MACINTOSH.— New Albany 
(1806-1886). Dr. Maclean was born in Princeton, 
N. J., Feb. 19, 1806, and died in the same city March 
8 ; 1886. He graduated at Princeton University in 
1824, and later as M.D. from the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons of New York in 1829. He began prac- 
tice in Princeton, but later, 1843-6, practiced in New 
York City. About the first of the year, 1848, he 
located in New Albany, Indiana, and taught chemis- 
try and natural history in Hanover College, Indiana, 
from April 1848 to April 1849. 

He was professor of chemistry for a time in Cin- 
cinnati College of Medicine and Surgery. Also taught 
in Pittsburg, Pa., and Oxford, Ohio, as well as in 
New Albany. In 1857 he removed to Princeton, and 
retired from active professional work. — Letter from 
Miss Caroline Fitch Maclean, daughter, Princeton, 
N. J. 

He contributed two papers to the Indiana State 
Medical Society: "Report on the Progress of Medical 
Chemistry," Trans. 1853, 58, and "Progress in Medical 
Chemistry," 1854, 51. Also "Case of False Ankylosis 
Successfully Treated." ib. p. 102.— G. W. H. K. 

McCAULEY,* ROBERT.— Johnson County (1793- 
1842). Born near Edinburg, Scotland, Aug. 22, 1793. 



* I am sure my readers will forgive me for this rather 
lengthv sketch. Here is a unique, early-day physician who 
goes "Doc Sifers" one better. Sifers had had some expe- 
rience : 

"DurirT the army — got his trade o' surgeon there." But 
"Dr." McCaulev. like Topsy, "just growed." — G. W. H. K. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 303 

He was the first white man to practice the healing 
art in Johnson County. 

He attended a boarding school in Edinburg for 
several years, and obtained a good education. Some- 
times he had to work in order to pay his board, and 
in consequence of this necessity he learned the coop- 
er's trade. He was also an athlete and became a 
proficient boxer. He came to America when 18 years 
of age, and traveled from place to place, and when 
in need replenished his purse by teaching school. In 
1822 he came to Henry County, Kentucky. Here he 
fell in love with a Miss Banta, and they were mar- 
ried in 1824. After his marriage he displayed his 
adaptability to his surroundings by working for two 
years in his father-in-law's distillery. 

In October, 1826, he and his family came to John- 
son County, Indiana, and moved into a little unfin- 
ished cabin about five miles west of the village of 
Franklin — then a place of five or six log houses. In 
this whole region there was no minister of the healing 
art and McCauley quickly saw the needs of the com- 
munity where people were stricken and dying with 
malaria, so he immediately assumed the task of car- 
ing for their physical needs, and soon gained their 
confidence by self-assurance, native ability and the 
statement that he was a graduate of the University 
of Edinburg. The popular belief in the truthfulness 
of this assertion gave him much prestige, and many 
were the cabin hearth stories of his seven years of 
study in "the old country." As he left Scotland in 
1811, when 18 years of age, those interested in abso- 
lute historical truth can readily see that he very 
likely never saw the inside of the University of Edin- 
burg, at least not in the serious capacity of a medical 
student. 

But in the swamps of Johnson County the people 
were stricken and dying, and calling for help. "Dr." 
McCauley boldly rode to their relief and was hailed 
with joy. He was needed so quickly after taking up 
his abode in the wilderness, that he had no time to 
make a door to his lonely cabin. In lieu of a wooden 



304 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

door a blanket was stretched over the lintels of his 
doorway; the winds of winter heat against it, and the 
wolves sniffed at its flimsy folds, while within, his 
wife and hahies trembled with fear. 

Soon he rode miles in every direction. He passed 
through Franklin, crossed Sugar Creek, and prac- 
ticed in Shelby County, through Edinburg into Bar- 
tholomew County, along Indian Creek, and among the 
bold hills and wild forests of Brown Countj', and far 
westward to White River. He sometimes made trips 
which consumed in time two or three days. He 
charged very little and collected less. His neighbors 
for a mile or two around always paid their bills in 
work. 

He died Aug. 14, 1842, and at the time of his death 
he owned nearly five hundred acres of fertile land, but 
very little of his wealth had been made by the prac- 
tice of medicine. — Dr. R. W. Terhune, Whiteland. 

McCLELLAND, JAMES S.— Crawfordsville (1821- 
1875). He was born at Oxford, 0., Sept. 3, 1821, and 
died at Crawfordsville, Aug. 29, 1875. He practiced 
medicine at the following named places in Indiana: 
Yountsville, Pleasant Hill, Jefferson, and Frankfort. 
Later he removed to Dallas, Illinois. In 1861, he 
enlisted in the Twenty-fifth Regiment, Illinois Volun- 
teers, and was made Lieutenant-Colonel. Soon after- 
ward was appointed medical director on the staff of 
Gen. Sigel, in Missouri. Later he was transferred to 
the Department of Tennessee, and made inspector of 
field hospitals. He received an injury in August, 1863, 
on account of which he was mustered out of service. 
He then located in Crawfordsville. In a short time, 
his health having improved, he again entered the ser- 
vice as surgeon of the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth 
Regiment, Indiana Volunteers. After the close of the 
war he resumed the practice of medicine and continued 
until his death. He represented Clinton County in 
the Legislature; and in 1856 was a Buchanan elector. 
— Dr. J. L. Beattv, Crawfordsville. 



MEDICAL HI8T0RY OF INDIANA. 305 

Dr. McClelland made an interesting report on 
"Trembles, or Milk Sickness." — Trans. 1854, 43. Was 
vice-president of the Indiana. State Medical Society, 
1853.— G. W. H. K. 

McCLURE, DAVID.— Jeffersonville (1815-189C). S. 
T. 1896, 268. 

McCLURE. JESSE D.— Jeffersonville (1855-1885). 
S. T. 1886, 206. 

McCOY, WILLIAM A.— Madison (1843-1904). S. T. 
1904, 359. 

McCOY, WILLIAM N.— Jeffersonville (1833-1892). 
S. T. 1892, 291. 

McCULLOCH, JAMES.— Muncie (1813-1877). 

McCULLOUGH, HOWARD.— Fort Wayne (1858- 
1892). S. T. 1892, 285. 

McDANIEL, CORNELIUS W.— Washington (1823- 
1880). S. T. 1881, 232. 

McFADDEN, WILLIAM G. — Shelbyville 1834- 
1907). A native of Pennsylvania; he came to Indiana 
in early life. He began practice in Shelby county in 
1856. Was commissioned surgeon of the Seventy-ninth 
Reg. Ind. Vols, in the Civil War. In the battle of 
Chickamauga he was a brigade surgeon, and on the 
second day, Sept. 20, 1863, while caring for wounded 
soldiers, was captured and taken to Libby prison, where 
he remained three months. After the war he located in 
Shelbyville, where he remained in active practice until 
a short time previous to his death, which occurred at 
Daytona, Fla., April 20, 1907. See I. M. J., Vol. xxv, 
448. 

McGAUGHY, ANDREW J.— Linton (1855-1904). S. 
T. 1905, 453. 

McKINNEY, GEORGE W— Marion (1849-1902). S. 
T. 1903, 348. Twenty-five years before his death he 
wrote a paper in which he claimed the identity of diph- 
theria and croup. 

McKINSTRY, JOHN F.— Jonesboro (1842-1882). S. 
T. 1883, 271. 

McLEOD, ANGUS J.— Columbus (1827-1898). S. 
T. 1899, 384. 



306 MKDKAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

MeMAHAX, SAMUEL W. — Indianapolis (1847- 
1001). S. T. 1902, 420. 

McMEAHAN, JAMES G. — Crawfordsville (1808- 
1890). I. M. J., Vol. xviii, 48. 

McXARY, CHARLES E.— Fillmore (1841-1880). S. 
T. 1881, 234. 

McPHEETERS, JOHX G. — Bloomington (1811- 
1888). S. T. 1888, 212. 

McSHAXE, JOHX T.— Indianapolis (1847-1907). S. 
T. 1907, 502. Dr. McShane practiced his profession for 
about sixteen years in Indianapolis. He had achieved 
success, and stood high as a practitioner and citizen. 
He was a frequent contributor to medical journals. See 
Stone, 310, I. M. J., Vol. xxv, 498. Portrait same page. 

McSHIRLEY, JAMES L.— Sulphur Springs (1860- 
1906). S. T. 1907, 485. 

MALOXE, JOHX A.— Princeton (1837-1893). S. T. 
1893, 257. 

MAPES, SMITH H.— Indianapolis (1840-1901). I. 
M. J., Vol. xix, 317. 

MARKLE, JOHX E.— Winchester (1838-1903). He 
was a practitioner of medicine in Winchester from 1874 
until his death. During the Civil War was 2nd lieut. 
and promoted to 1st lieut., Co. K, of the Thirty-fourth 
Reg. Ind. Vols. See I. M. J., Vol. xxi, 483. 

MARR, DELOS D.— Chesterton (1852-1889). S. T. 
1890, 156. 

MARSEE, JOSEPH W.— Indianapolis (1848-1898). 
S. T. 1899, 399. Dr. Marsee ranked with the great sur- 
geons of the country. He was an excellent anatomist, 
and this knowledge, combined with rare mechanical 
tact, made him eminently skilful as a surgeon. He was 
preeminently a teacher and lecturer. He was not dis- 
posed to write much, but what he did was practical. 
On Feb. 11, 1896, he delivered an informal address 
before the Marion County Medical Society, which was 
published in the Indiana Medical Journal, Vol. xiv, 
349, entitled "The Treatment of Common Injuries of 
the Hand." This article is well illustrated, and is still 
read with interest at the present day. In 1894 he read 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 



30: 



ft paper before the State Medical Society, "A Contribu- 
tion to the Treatment of Fractures of the Femur," 
Trans. 1884, 194. For some years previous to his death 
he was professor of surgery and dean of the Medical 
College of Indiana. He had also filled other positions 
in the college and city hospitals. For biographical 
sketch see I. M. J., Vol. xvii, 225. Drs. Wynn and 
Morrison pay a beautiful tribute to his memory in 
Transactions for 1899, 399-400. 




JOSEPH W. MARSEE. 



MARSHALL, DANIEL M.— Columbia City (1823- 
1892) . S. T. 1893, 250. Dr. Marshall left one son who 
is the present governor cf our state, Thomas R. Mar- 
shall. 

MARTIN, JOHN H. L.— Arcadia (1850-1885). S. 
T. 1886, 208. 



308 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

MARTIN, SAMUEL M.— Greenfield (1842-1897). 
Was a soldier of the Civil War. I. M. J., Vol. xvi, 32. 

MASON, CHARLES R.— Hartford City (1846-190G). 
S. T. 1906, 490. 

MAVITY, JAMES S.— Fowler (1845-1901). S. T. 
1901, 491. I. M. J., Vol. xix, 486. 

MAXWELL, JAMES D., Sr.— Bloomington (1815- 
1892). S. T. 1894, 214. Dr. Maxwell was in practice 
at Bloomington for nearly fifty years. He was a trus- 
tee of Indiana University for nearly forty years, and 
rendered valuable service to the cause of general educa- 
tion. See Robson, 142; Stone, 657. I. M. J., Vol. xi, 
119. W 7 as present at the State Medical Convention, 
June 6, 1849. 

MAXWELL, JAMES D., Jr.— Bloomington (1850 
1891). S. T. 1891, 282. 

MAY, OLIVER T.— Monroeville (1863-1903). S. T 
1903, 349. 

MAY, WILLIS L.— Crawfordsville (1828-1900). S 
T. 1901, 492. 

MAYER, CARL F.— Fort Wayne (1830-1885). S 
T. 1886, 197. 

MEARS, GEORGE W.— Indianapolis (1803-1879) 
S. T. 1880, 234. Dr. Mears was born at Harrisburg 
Pa., June 27, 1803. Graduated from Jefferson Medical 
College in 1827, and same year located at Vincennes 
where he remained until 1834, when he removed to 
Indianapolis. In 1849 he was elected professor of ob 
stetrics and diseases of women in the Central Medical 
College, which at that time was the medical department 
of Asbury University. In 1869 he was elected to the 
same chair in the Indiana Medical College and later 
became emeritus professor of the same chair, which he 
retained until his death, May 20, 1879. 

Dr. Mears was present at the formation of the state 
society in 1849. He was faithful in attendance at 
its meetings and was elected president of the society 
in 1851. He contributed a number of papers of marked 
value : "Report on the Duration of Pregnancy" ( in con- 
nection with Dr. Lomax), Trans. 1851, 31; "President'9 




GEORGE W. MEARS 



310 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

Address," 1852, 21: 'Tlacenta Praevia," 1868, 100; 
"Essay on the Treatment of Puerperal Hemorrhage,"' 
1S70, 25; "Biographical Sketch of John S. Bobbs, 
M.D.," 1S71, 211; "Treatment of Puerperal Eclampsia," 
1S76, 54; and "On the Etiology and Treatment of Un- 
avoidable Hemorrhage," Trans. 1878, 102. See Trans. 
1893, 23. 

MEEKER, DANIEL. — Laporte (1806-1876). Dr. 
Meeker was elected president of the State Medical 
Society in 1856, and presided in 1857. He contributed 
an a*rticle to the society, "Report on Diseases of the 
Eye."' Trans. .1856, 53; "President's Address," Trans. 
1857, 57. He also contributed three valuable articles on 
"Eractures and False Joints," respectively. Transac- 
tions, 1857, 29; 1858, 40; and 1859, 34. He was a sur- 
geon of no mean standing. In later life he went off 
after strange gods, publishing in 1871 a pamphlet of 
fourteen pages on "Prof. Meeker's Opium Cure — A Cer- 
tain and Safe Remedy for the Opium Habit." This 
pamphlet led to his expulsion from the State Medical 
Society in 1871 — Trans. 1871, 230. He was surgeon of 
the Ninth Reg. Ind. Vols, (three months) and later, 
for a short time, surgeon of the same in the three 
years' service. 

MEGEE, WILLIAM X.— Rushville (1859-1900). S. 
T. 1900, 331. 

MELSHEIMER, C. T.— Bluffton (1819-1887). S. T. 
1888, 205. Was assistant surgeon of the 101st Reg. 
Ind. Vols. 

MEXDEXHALL, ELIHU T.— Xewcastle (1844- 
1908). Practiced medicine in Henry County for 
thirty-four years. Was a soldier of the Civil War. 

MEXDEXHALL, XATHAX.— Thorntown (1831- 
1880). S. T. 1881, 236. R. M. of Ind., Dist. 9, p. 19. 

MEXDEXHALL, WILLIAM O.— Richmond (1834- 
1905). S. T. 1906, 504. 

MERCER, THOMAS C— Jeffersonville (1819-1884). 
S. T. 1884, 222. 

METCALF, CHARLES X. — Indianapolis (1846- 
1896). S. T. 1896, 269. Dr. Metcalf was appointed 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 311 

secretary of the Indiana State Board of Health in 1883, 
and filled that position until his resignation, May 1, 
1896. He was quite a contributor to medical journals. 
R. M. of Ind., Dist. 7, p. 143. 

MILLER, ABRAM 0.— Lebanon (1827-1901). S. T. 
1901, 493. Quite a number of times the writer has seen 
Dr. Miller under fire. He was colonel of the Seventy- 
second Reg. Ind. Vols., and much of. the time com- 
manded the famous Wilder's Brigade of Mounted In- 
fantry. He entered the service quite early and remained 
until the close of the war. At Selma, Ala., he received 
a dangerous wound, but was not discharged until the 
war had ended. For his gallant military service he was 
breveted brigadier general. He was a good man, a good 
physician, and a patriot. He deserves a shaft as high 
as Bunker Hill monument. 

MILLMAN, JOHN H.— Washington (1845-1881). S. 
T. 1882, 199. 

MINICH, JAMES A.— Worthington (1831-1897). I. 
M. J., Vol. xv, 341. 

MITCHEL, JAMES F.— Vernon (1837-18..), was 
born in Jennings County, Ind., Dec. 14, 1837. 

He was graduated from the Ohio Medical College in 
March, 1860, and continued in the practice of his pro- 
fession until the day of his death. He was of an amica- 
ble disposition, never coarse nor cross, remarkably free 
from fretting and stewing, polite in his deportment, 
never glorying in sin or shame. He carried his refine- 
ment of manhood with him in his professional visits 
and was a favorite among the people. When I say that 
Dr. Mitchel was a justly esteemed and valuable citizen, 
I only utter what many lips are ready to repeat. When 
I say that he was a success in his profession his numer- 
ous patrons are ready to emphasize the testimony. The 
members of the profession are ready to bear testimony 
to his honorable observance of the rules of etiquette 
belonging to the profession. 

He was always loyal to the cause of medicine in all 
that tended to its uplifting in society work and all that 
pertained to it. — Dr. Walter J. Mitchel, Vernon, a son. 




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MITCHELL, GILES B.— Mooresville (1822-1880). S. 
T. 1881, 239. 

MITCHELL, HARVEY.— Muncie (1825-1909). 

MODRICKER, JOHN M.— Wabash (1833-1907). S. 
T. 1907, 493. 

MOFFETT, JOHN.— Rushville (1822-1903). S. T. 
1903, 350. After thorough preparation, Dr. Moffett 
located in Rushville in 1850, where he remained and 
practiced medicine for fifty-three years. In 1879, at the 
formation of the Central College of Physicians and Sur- 
geons of Indianapolis, he was elected to the chair of 
principles of medicine, and at the end of three j'eara 
was transferred to the chair of obstetrics, which hti 
filled until March, 1887, when he resigned. He was 
acting president of the Indiana State Medical Society 
in 1864. He contributed a number of papers to the 
state society: "Report on the Progress of Medicine," 
Trans. 1862, 47; "President's Address," Trans. 1864, 
13; "Cerebrospinal Meningitis," Trans. 1867, 108; and 
"General Anasarca — A Case with Remarks," Trans. 
1869, 15. See I. M. J., Vol. xxi, 530. 

MONTGOMERY, DAVID B. — Cynthiana (1834- 
1885). S. T. 1886, 203. 

MOODEY, JOHN W.— Greensburg (1816-1867). Was 
born in Shippensburg, Pa., June 12, 1816, and died 
Aug. 27, 1867. He located in Greensburg in 1839, and 
remained there until his death. He was present at the 
formation of the State Medical Society, June 6, 1849, 
and his name appears often in the Transactions. He 
was a skilful physician, a good citizen, and a perfect 
gentleman. He was my generous friend, and I was a 
student in his office in April, 1861, when the Civil War 
commenced, and the storm clouds swept me into the 
conflict. 

MOONEY, HENRY C— Laketon (1850-1905). S. T. 
1905, 454. 

MOORE, CHARLES V.— Fairmount (1849-1897). S. 
T. 1897, 359. 

MOORE, JOHN B.— Kokomo (1841-1906). S. T. 
1907, 486. 



314 MEDICAL U18T0RY OF INDIANA. 

MOORE, RICHARD S— Mt. Vernon (1843-1881). S. 
T. 1882, 200. 

MORGAN, RALPH G.— Indianapolis (1873-1903). S. 
T. 1903, 351. 

MORGAN, ROBERT H. — Spartansburg (1827- 
1884). S. T. 1884, 220. He was a captain of Company 
D, Eighth Reg. Ind. Vols., and later first lieutenant of 
Company D, Fifty-seventh Reg. Ind. Vols. 

MORGAN, SAMUEL B. — Crawfordsville (1813- 
1886). S. T. 1887, 188. 

MORGAN, WILLIAM V. — Indianapolis (1853- 
1900). S. T. 1901, 494. Dr. Morgan first practiced in 
Indianapolis, then removed to Julietta, and in 1887 
returned to Indianapolis. He was appointed professor 
of anatomy in the Central College of Physicians and 
Surgeons of Indianapolis. Later he became professor 
of surgical anatomy, fractures and dislocations, in the 
same college, resigning his chair in 1899. He was rap- 
idly rising into distinction as a surgeon, when death 
untimely ended his career. See Stone, 661, and I. M. 
J., Vol. xix, 164. 

MOTHERSHEAD, JOHN L.— Indianapolis (1808- 
1854). S. T. 1855, 76. He was a charter member of 
the state society. He was born at Stamping Ground. 
Scott county, Ky., Jan. 6, 1808, and came to Indian- 
apolis in 1830. He was president of the Board of 
Health, and during the Black Hawk war was assistant 
surgeon of the Indiana Battalion. He died at Indian- 
apolis, Nov. 4, 1854. — J. L. Mothershead, a son. 

MULLANE, JOSEPH.— Lyons (1856-1898). S. T. 
1899, 394. 

MULLEN, ALEXANDER J.— Napoleon (1813-1897). 
Was born in Ireland in 1813, and when a mere child 
came to America with his parents and settled in Penn- 
sylvania. When he was old enough he ran away from 
home and shipped as a boy in the Merchant Marine 
service. In the early days Merchant vessels conducted 
a training school, requiring so many hours a day for 
study. The Doctor there received his first instruction 
in medicine, and after nine vears of service he for- 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 315 

sook the sea and took up the study of medicine at the 
Louisville Medical College, where he graduated in 1838. 
He began the practice of medicine at Marion, Indiana, 
then moved to Napoleon, where he had quite a large 
class studying under him, among them his brother 
Bernard F. Mullen, Dr. Glass and J. W. Gordon, who 
afterwards gave up the study of medicine and became 
one of the most famous lawyers of the state. From 
Napoleon he went to Michigan City and was appointed 
Prison Physician. When the war broke out he moved 
his family to Madison and joined the 35th Irish 
Regiment and became surgeon. After spending over 
thirty years in the Hoosier state he moved his family 
to St. Louis, Mo., and while not altogether forsaking 
the practice of medicine, he spent a great deal of his 
time in traveling through the western part of the 
country, and in 1887, took an extended European trip 
visiting hospitals of the old country and performing 
several successful operations while there. He died at 
his home in St. Louis, September 25, 1897.— Miss Cora 
E. Mullen, Madison, Niece. 

Dr. Mullen was present at the State Medical Con- 
vention, June 6, 1849. Three of the Mullen brothers 
were present at this Convention. — G. W. H. K. 

MULLEN, BERNARD F.— Napoleon (1825-1879). 
Was born at Mt. Joy, Pennsylvania, in 1825, and 
received his early education in the parochial schools. 
At an early age he went to Napoleon, Indiana, and 
joined a class of students who were studying medicine 
under his eldest brother, Dr. Alexander Mullen. His 
early medical days were passed between Napoleon and 
Madison, where his brother Dr. John Mullen had 
located. Dr. Bernard was quite successful in the prac- 
tice of medicine, making children's diseases a specialty ; 
and he also gained a reputation in his profession dur- 
ing the cholera epidemic of 1849. At the call for 
troops during the Mexican War, *J. W. Gordon and Dr. 
B. F. Mullen raised a company at Napoleon — Gordon 
being made captain and Mullen, surgeon. He was the 
youngest surgeon serving in the American army. This 
company was afterwards attached to the 3rd Ohio. 



316 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

During the first of the Rebellion, Dr. Bernard Mullen 
was located in the timber country between Osgood and 
Napoleon, and when the call for volunteers was issued 
was made Colonel of the 35th Regiment Indiana Infan- 
try. For several years after the war he resided in 
Madison, but afterwards located in Terre Haute, 
where he stood high in social and professional life. 
He was a man of the most varied accomplishments: a 
soldier, politician, musician, a writer of more than 
ordinary ability, and an orator of the greatest bril- 
liancy and power. During the early days of the Know 
Nothings, Dr. Mullen fought them openly from the 
speaker's stand. He was one of the Commissioners 
that located the State Prison at Michigan City, and at 
the time of his death was a candidate for State Librar- 
ian. He was taken ill at a hotel at Indianapolis, where 
he died February 6, 1879. His remains were taken 
charge of by the G. A. R. and were laid to rest at 
Terre Haute. — Miss Cora E. Mullen, Napoleon, Niece. 

Dr. Mullen was present at the State Medical Con- 
vention, June 6, 1849. G. W. H. K. 

MULLEN, JOHN W.— Madison (1821-1887). Was 
born in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, in 1821. When 
quite a boy, he went to Texas and served as a page 
under Gen. Sam Houston during the war between the 
Lone Star State and Mexico. During this campaign 
he had the misfortune to be taken down with yellow 
fever and was faithfully nursed by one of the men 
until he w r as supposed to have died. Around his belt 
he had concealed about $1,250 of Texas script. The 
nurse took $1,000 of this and left a note with the 
remaining $250 for the person who would bury him. 
The doctor often told this experience in demonstrat- 
ing that life was not always extinct when supposed to 
be. Becoming tired of Texas he returned to Philadel- 
phia and entered the Pennsylvania University; gradu- 
ated in medicine w T ith honors, and w 7 as elected intern 
for two years at the Philadelphia City Hospital. 
Through the importunities of his friends and class- 
mates he was induced to come to Indiana, and in 1847 
located at Madison. Early in the fifties Dr. John 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 317 

Mullen, with five other leading physicians of the city, 
obtained a charter from the State Legislature for a 
medical school to be known as The Madison Medical 
Institute, and in a two-story frame building on the 
corner of East and Third Streets, commenced to give 
lectures to a class of students in Madison. A brick 
cottage to the north was used as a dissecting room. 
The demands of private practice were so great that 
the doctors found it impossible to keep all their lec- 
ture engagements, and the students becoming discour- 
aged concluded to go to the University of Louisville. 
The school-room was turned into a hospital, — the first 
one ever established in Madison — and the brick cottage 
was converted into a pest house. Up to the time of his 
death, Dr. John Mullen took a lively interest in the 
advancement of his chosen profession of medicine, and 
kept himself well read in the science of that profession, 
often being called into consultation in cases where 
experience and sound advice were needed. He was 
regarded as one of the best surgeons of the state, and 
performed some of the most difficult operations. He 
died at his home in Madison, May 10, 1887. — Miss 
Cora E. Mullen, Madison, Daughter. 

Dr. Mullen was present at the State Medical Con- 
vention, June 6, 1849.— G. W. H. K. 

MULLINIX, M. G.— Spencer (1827-1886). S. T. 
1887, 193. Was surgeon of the 149th Reg. Ind. Vols. 

MUNFORD, SAMUEL E.— Princeton (1837-1893). 
S. T. 1894, 219. He enlisted as a private soldier in the 
Seventeenth Reg. Ind. Vols, early in 1861; was then 
appointed hospital steward, and served as such until 
Aug. 13, 1861, when he was appointed assistant sur- 
geon of the same regiment, and served until Feb. 5, 
1862, when he was promoted to surgeon. On the forma- 
tion of Wilder's Brigade of mounted infantry he was 
appointed acting brigade surgeon, and served as such 
until Jan. 12, 1865. He was elected president of the 
State Medical Society in 1883. To the state society he 
contributed the following papers: "Case of Hydrocele, 
with Cartilaginous Thickening of the Tunica Vagi- 
nalis," Trans. 1872, 7; "Cases of Injury to the Head, 




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MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 319 

with Remarks Thereon," Trans. 1883, 110; "Presi- 
dent's Address — A Question in State Medicine," Trans. 
1884, 1; "Repair of Injuries of the Pelvic Floor," 
Trans. 1892, 131. See Robson, 101, Stone, 348, and I. 
M. J., Vol. xii, 103. For three years I was associated 
with Dr. Munford in army life, and I loved him as 
Jonathan loved David. 

MURPHY, PIERSON.— Franklin (1800-1864). Born 
in Fairfield Co., Ohio, in 1800. Graduate of the Ohio 
Medical College in 1827, and the same year located 
at Franklin, which at that date consisted of some 
half dozen families living in log houses. He was the 
second physician to locate in Johnson County. He 
encountered the usual hardships of the early, and the 
young physician, of primitive days in Indiana. 

In 1828, Dr. Murphy, assisted by Dr. Smith, of 
Edinburg, performed paracentesis abdominalis by mak- 
ing an incision into the abdominal cavity with a 
thumb lancet. Then having removed the bark and 
pith from a small elder, this crude contrivance was 
used to draw off the fluid. 

Dr. Murphy practiced over a vast extent of terri- 
tory, and, although his - charges were nominal, ac- 
quired considerable wealth. He died in 1864. — 
Abridged from letter from Dr. R. W. Terhune, White- 
land, Ind. 

MURRAY, ALFRED L.— Eaton (1845-1906). S. T. 
1907, 479. Was a soldier of the Civil War. 

MYERS, WILLIAM H.— Fort Wayne (1826-1907). 
S. T. 1907, 471. Dr. Myers located in Fort Wayne in 
1859, and during all his active professional life was 
recognized as one of the leading surgeons of northern 
Indiana. In the spring of 1861 he entered the service 
as surgeon of the Thirtieth Reg. Ind. Vols, and served 
as such for a number of months. After leaving the 
service he resumed practice in Fort Wayne. To the 
state society he contributed a paper on "Shock," Trans. 
1883, 138; also "Ganglions, with Suggestions on Treat- 
ment," Trans. 1885, 180. Dr. Myers was honored by 
his professional brethren. I. M. J., Vol. xxv, 332, 449. 
He performed the first Porro operation in Indiana, 




WILLIAM H. MYERS. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 321 

saving mother and child. Am. Jour, of Obs., Vol. xxvi, 
p. 933. 

NASH, GEORGE W.— Indianapolis (1835-1903). S. 
T. 1904, 300. 

NESBIT, JOSEPH A.— Allisonville (1821-1895). I. 
M. J., Vol. xiv, 177. 

NEW, GEORGE W.— Indianapolis (1819-1891). S. 
T. 1891, 286. Dr. New graduated at the Ohio Medical 
College in 1840, and immediately located at Greens- 
burg, where he remained nineteen years, and then re- 
moved to Indianapolis. He was surgeon of the Seventh 
Reg. Ind. Vols, from 1861 to 1864. In November, 1864, 
was sent by Governor Morton to New Orleans as mili- 
tary agent for Indiana. For two years following the 
termination of the war he was examiner of drugs in 
the New Orleans Custom House. Resolutions, I. M. J., 
Vol. ix, 250. 

NEWCOMER, FRISBY S. — Indianapolis (1828- 
1889). S. T. 1890, 157. Dr. Newcomer was a native of 
Hagerstown, Maryland, and a graduate of the Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania. He took up microscopy in mid- 
dle life, and became an expert in that art. During the 
Civil War Dr. Newcomer was in the government serv- 
ice in Indianapolis, and for six years physician to the 
Deaf and Dumb Institute. At the time of his death 
was contract surgeon to the U. S. arsenal at Indian- 
apolis. 

NEWLAND, BENJAMIN. — Bedford ( 1821-1889 ) . 
S. T. 1889, 216. Dr. Newland was acting president of 
che State Medical Society in 1879, Dr. Louis Humph- 
reys having resigned as president, Dr. Newland, vice- 
president, took his place. At that meeting Dr. New- 
land delivered an address, "The Relations of Legis- 
lation to Sanitary Protection," Trans. 1879, 1. He 
was a surgeon in the Civil War, Twentv-second Reg. 
Ind. Vols. 

NEWLAND, JAMES H.— Valparaiso (1820-1889). 
S. T. 1890, 152. 

NEWTON, WILIAM T.— Indianapolis (1854-1900). 
S. T. 1901, 495. At the time of his death he was fill- 



322 )l EDI GAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

ing the chair of materia medica and therapeutics in 
the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons. 

XIERMAN, HERMAN G.— Fort Wayne (1870- 
1909). Jour. Ind. State Med. Assoc, Vol. 2, 82. 

NIMAN, CHARLES H.— Elkhart (1855-1904). S. 
T. 1905, 455. 

NIMAN, JONAS P.— Lagrange (1828-1888). S. T. 
1889, 209. 

NOBLE, THOMAS B., Sr.— Greenwood (1827-1907). 
I. M. J., Vol. xxv, 410. 

NOLAND, STACY T.— Delphi (1845-1887). S. T. 
1888, 217. 

NORTH, EUGENE B.— Peru (1854-1887). S. T. 
1888, 203. 

O'FERRALL, ROBERT M.— Lafayette (1826-1896). 
S. T. 1897, 351. Dr. O'Ferrall was vice-president of 
the State Medical Society in 1859. For a few months 
he was surgeon of the Fortieth Reg. Ind. Vols. He 
was loved and respected by his fellow-men. I M. J., 
Vol. xv, 295. 

O'REAR, CHARLES D.— Jamestown (1839-1884). 
S. T. 1884, 216. 

OLIVER, DANDRIDGE H. — Indianapolis (1826- 
1895). S. T. 1895, 410. See sketch, I. M. J., Vol. xiii, 
386. Portrait, ib. facing p. 371. 

OMO, JOSEPH H.— Harlan (1832-1898). S. T. 
1899, 396. 

OWEN, ABRAHAM M.— Evansville (1849-1898). 
S. T. 1899, 392. Dr. Owen was one of the leading sur- 
geons of Evansville, occupying the chair of surgery dur- 
ing the existence of the Medical College of Evansville 
in that institution. See Robson, 533, and Stone, 360. 

PABODY, EZRA FITCH.— Vernon (1789-1871). Dr. 
Pabody was born at New Lebanon, N. Y., June 20, 
1789. He was a lineal descendant of John Alden and 
Priscilla Mullins, the story of whose courtship and 
marriage is immortalized by Longfellow in "The 
Courtship of Miles Standish." William Pabody, the 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 328 

fifth grandfather of Dr. E. F. Pabody, was married 
to Elizabeth, oldest daughter of John Alden and Pris- 
cilla Mullins, Dec. 26, 1644. 

Dr. Pabody, having completed his medical educa- 
tion at an early age, served as "Surgeon's Mate" in a 
regiment stationed at Long Island during the war of 
1812. Soon after he formed a partnership with Dr, 
Doubleday, of Binghampton, N. Y., where he remained 
until the year 1818, when he removed to Vernon, Jen- 
nings County, Indiana, and again entered on the prac- 
tice of medicine. For years he was the only physician 
in Jennings and some of the adjoining counties. His 
circuit extended through an unbroken forest over so 
large a scope of country as to require a tour of sev- 
eral days in order to visit all his patients. 

On Oct. 15, 1820, Dr. Pabody was married to Mabel 
Butler, oldest daughter of Rev. Chauncey Butler and 
Demia Butler. 

Dr. Pabody organized the first Sunday School and 
the first Temperance Society in Jennings County and 
to the day of his death was deeply interested in the 
cause of religion, education and temperance. 

Dr. Pabody served three terms as a member of the 
Indiana Legislature, and served as Judge of Probate 
and Common Pleas Courts from 1842 to 1856. He 
died at his home in Vernon, Feb. 3, 1871, aged 81 
years and 8 months. — Dr. VV. H. Stemm, North 
Vernon. 

PALMITER, CLEBRON.— Ligonier (1819-1889). S. 
T. 1890, 151. 

PARKER, JOSEPH.— Colfax (1849-1897). S. T 
1897, 364. 

PARR, JOHN N.— Jolietville (1837-1909). Dr. 
Parr was a native of Boone County, in which he 
spent nearly all of his life. 

PARR, THOMAS E.— Jolietville (1871-1900). S. 
T., 1900, 332. 

PARRY, CHARLES.— Indianapolis (1814-1861). S. 
T. 1862, 49. Dr. Parry was born in Philadelphia, and 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

after receiving his medical degree located in Camden, 
X. J. Upon the advice of his uncle, Hon. 0. H. Smith, 
he came west and located in Connersville, where he 
remained about two years. Later (1839) he removed 
to Indianapolis, where he continued to reside until his 
death. He possessed a high degree of skill as a sur- 
geon and obstetrician. In the July number, Vol. vi, 

28, of the Am. Jour, of the Med. Sciences, is an article 
from the pen of Dr. Parry entitled "Congestive Fever; 
Its Character, Symptoms and Treatment, as Met with 
in Central Indiana." This article was a valuable con- 
tribution to the subject of malarial disorders, so com- 
mon in Indiana, and was quoted by Dr. George B. 
Wood, Vol. i, 306 (1858), in his great work on the 
practice of medicine. 

Dr. P. H. Jameson says: "Dr. Parry, when quite 
young, performed a bold and successful operation, by 
which he relieved a victim of bad surgery of a crook 
in his leg. He exsected a part of the shaft of the bone 
and brought the limb in line, when the fragments 
united and the leg was much improved. Professor 
Mutter, in 1849, referred to this operation as brilliant 
and successful, but added to the class of Jefferson stu- 
dents whom he addressed: 'Young gentlemen, I cannot 
advise you to attempt it, as you might not succeed as 
well as Dr. Parry.' " 

See Trans. Ind. State Med. Society, 1862, 49; also, 
1894, 212g, and Stone, p. 373. 

PARVIN, THEOPHILUS. — Indianapolis ( 1829- 
1898). Was born January 9, 1829, at Buenos Ayres, 
South America, where his parents were residing as 
missionaries, and died in the city of Philadelphia, Jan. 

29, 1898. He took academic honors at the University 
of Indiana, and in 1852 he received his medical degree 
at the University of Pennsylvania. He located in In- 
dianapolis as a practitioner of medicine in 1853, and 
except one year when he resided in Cincinnati, he made 
Indianapolis his home until the fall of 1883, when he 
removed to Philadelphia, where he remained until his 
death. 

While a resident of Indianapolis in 1864 he accepted 
the chair of materia medica in the Medical College of 



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325 



Ohio, and filled that position until 1869. He then held 
consecutive professorships in the University of Louis- 
ville, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of In- 
dianapolis, and the Medical College of Indiana until 
1882, when he returned to the University of Louisville, 
where he remained until 1883, when he was elected to 
and accepted the chair of obstetrics and diseases of 
women and children, in the Jefferson Medical College, 
a position he filled until his death. 




THEOPHILUS PAEVIN 



Dr. Parvin read eight papers before the Indiana 
State Medical Society: "Diseases of the Eye and Ear," 
1857, 23; "Obituary of Nathan Knepfler," 1859, 56; 
"President's Address," 1862, 14; "Vaginal Fistules," 
1866, 78; "Report on Diseases of Women," 1868, 90; 
"Placental Extraction and Placental Expression," 1871, 



326 MEDICAL III STORY OF INDIANA. 

11; "Fibrous Polypus of the Rectum," 1873, 113; and 
"Treatment of Placenta Prsevia," 1876, 34. 

To him belongs the honor of being the first physi- 
cian of Indiana to write a medical text -book, "Science 
and Art of Obstetrics." It passed through two or more 
editions. Although the work did , not appear until 
1886, yet the book was written while Dr. Parvin was a 
resident of Indianapolis. On the eve of his departure 
for Philadelphia he told the author of this paper that 
he must "dress the work up a little." 

He acquired a knowledge of the German language 
after his fiftieth birthday, and translated into English 
Winckel's work on "Diseases of Women." 

He was honored with the presidency of the Indiana 
State Medical Society in 1862, and president of the 
American Medical Association, 1879. Later was presi- 
dent of the Philadelphia Obstetrical Society and the 
American Academy of Medicine. He received the degree 
of LL.D. from Hanover College in consideration of his 
superior professional attainments. He was a personal 
friend of Sir James Y. Simpson of Edinburgh, and Dr. 
Wilde of Dublin. He met like cordial recognition from 
medical men in France. 

Dr. Parvin excelled as a lecturer and teacher, while 
he took high rank as a polished writer. As an oper- 
ator he was surpassed by many. 

Dr. W. B. Fletcher said of him, "He was the purest 
man I ever knew, and apparently wholly without faults 
or vices." His last public address in Indiana was on 
the evening of June 16, 1896, at the thirty-ninth (semi- 
annual) meeting of the Delaware District Medical 
Society at Dunkirk. His subject was "Sunshine With- 
in Attracts Sunshine from Without." 

Dr. Parvin established the Western Journal of Medi- 
cine, at Indianapolis, in January, 1866. In 1870 he 
was associated with Dr. David W. Yandell of Louis- 
ville in the editorship of the American Practitioner, at 
the last named city, a position he filled for some years. 

After his death his widow presented his library, con- 
sisting of over 900 volumes, to the medical department 
of the Indianapolis City Library. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 327 

His remains were brought back to Indianapolis for 
interment. 

Robson, 361; Stone, 375; I. M. J.. Vol. ii, 11; xvi, 
325. xvii, 143. R. M. of Ind., Dist. 7, p. 262. 

PATTEN, JAMES C— Francisco (1826-1003). S. 
T., 1903, 352. In 1864 was appointed assistant surgeon 
of the Fifty-eighth Reg. Ind. Vols., in which capacity 
he served until the close of the war. 

PAYNTER, CHRISTIAN L.— Salem (1824-1893). 
S. T. 1893, 399. Dr. Paynter served with credit as 
second lieutenant in Company D, Second Reg. Ind. 
Vols, in the Mexican War. After his return home he 
pursued the study of medicine and became a successful 
practitioner. 

PEARMAN, FRANCIS M.— Palestine (1836-1897). 
He was a native of Indiana. Was assistant surgeon of 
the Thirtieth Reg. Ind. Vols., and in 1865 surgeon of 
the residuary battalion of same regiment. Was on the 
board of examining surgeons for pensions. 

PEARSON, -CHARLES D.— Indianapolis (1820- 
1890). S. T. 1890, 165. For seventeen years Dr. Pear- 
son practiced medicine in Lawrence county, and for 
twenty-eight years in Indianapolis. During the Civil 
War he was surgeon of the Forty-ninth and Eighty- 
second Regts. Ind. Vols. He was one of the organizers 
of the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, and 
occupied the chair of obstetrics, and subsequently was 
professor of diseases of the nervous system. He con- 
tributed an article to the State Society in 1882 on 
"Puerperal Eclampsia," Trans. 1882, 126. R. M. of 
Ind., Dist. 7, p. 165. 

PECK, SAMUEL W.— Washington (1817-1895). S. 
T. 1895, 413. 

PENCE, ROLLIN.— Miami county (1813-1899). S. 
T. 1900, 333. 

PENNINGTON, JOEL.— Milton (1799-1887). S. T. 
1887, 199. Dr. Pennington's "President's Address," 
1873, was on "Reminiscences of Practice, and Biograph- 
ical Sketches of Physicians in the Early History of 
Indiana," Trans. 1873, 9. A portion of this paper has 



328 MEDICAL EI8T0HY OF INDIANA. 

already been published. See p. 33. In 1877 he con- 
tributed an article on "Hereditary Transmission of 
Disease/' Trans. 1877. 113. 

PEPPER, WILLIAM J.— C'onnorsville .(183.0-1892). 
S. T. 1893, 249. 

PETTIJOHN, AMOS.— Arcadia (1815-1886). S. T. 
1887, 192. 

PHILLIPS, CHARLES W.— Jennings county ( 1859- 
1901). Removed to Colorado in 1898. Died at Rocky 
Ford, in that state. Sept. 25, 1901. 

PHILLIPS, R. N.— Union, Pike county (1822-1885). 
S. T. 1886, 198. 

PHIPPS, JOHN M.— Bedford (1849-1899). S. T. 
1900, 345. 

PITZER, ANDREW B.— Tipton (1845-1895). S. T. 
1895, 412. Was a member of the 148th Reg. Ind. Vols. 
Clerk of Tipton county for four years. 

PORTER, ALBERT G.— Lebanon (1825-1893). S. 
T. 1893, 258. He contributed a paper to the State So- 
ciety on "Nervous or Sick Headache," Trans. 1889, 99. 

Dr. Porter was stricken with cerebral hemorrhage 
while at the bedside of a woman in labor and died a 
few weeks later. See I. M. J., Vol. xi, 344. R. M. of 
Ind., Dist. 9, p. 36. 

PORTER, WILLIAM D.— Higginsville (1826-1890). 
S. T. 1891, 279. 

POSEY, JOHN W.— Petersburg (1801-1884). S. T. 
1886, 196. 

POUCHER, CHARLES H. C— Indianapolis (1868- 
1901). S. T. 1901, 496. 

PRESTON, ALBERT G.— Greencastle (1813-1889). 
S. T. 1890, 153. Dr. Preston located in Greencastle in 
1844, and remained there until his death. He was sur- 
geon of the Fifty-fifth Reg. Ind. Vols. He also visited 
a number of battle-fields at the request of Governor 
Morton. He was present at the Medical Convention 
at Indianapolis, June 6, 1849. 

Dr. Preston reported an interesting case, "The Re- 
port of a Case of Complete Transverse Rupture of 



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330 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

Vagina at Its Juncture with the Uterus, in Which no 
Hemorrhage Occurred after That Organ Was Expelled 
from the Body," Trans. 1882, 21. Also "Cases of 
Arsenical Poisoning," Trans. 1880, 47. 

PRESTON, SAMUEL C— Greencastle (1846-1893). 
S. T. 1893, 253. 

PRIGG, EDWARD C— Henry countv (1826-1908). 
J. I. S. M. A., Vol. i, 205. 

PROEGLER, CARL.— Ft. Wayne (1837-1907). S. 
T., 1907, 472. Dr. Proegler received his medical educa- 
tion in Germany, located in New York in 1860, and at 
the beginning of the Civil War was made surgeon of the 
Twenty-fifth Reg. New York Vols. He located in Ft. 
Wayne in 1874, where he remained until his death. 

PUGH, JOHN W.— Upland (1827-1896). S. T. 1897, 
347. 

PUGH, MAHLON.— Upland (1835-1883). S. T. 

1884, 214. 

PUGH, WILLIAM A.— Rushville (1829-1893). S. 
T. 1895, 398. He was a practitioner of forty-two years' 
experience. 

PURVIANCE, SAMUEL W.— Crawfordsville (1823- 
1891). S. T. 1892, 283. 

RAINEY, HARVEY W.— Indianapolis (1854-1902). 
S. T. 1903, 353. 

RANSBURG, MARTIN V.— Steuben county (1842- 
1900). S. T. 1900, 334. 

REA, GEORGE N.— New Castle (1852-1885). S. T. 

1885, 219. 

REA, JOHN.— New Castle (1819-1899). S. T. 1899, 
405. Dr. Rea practiced medicine in Henry county half 
a century, and no citizen of the county was held in 
higher esteem. In 1860 he made a "Report from the 
New Castle Medical Society" to the State Society, 
Trans. 1860, 58. 

READ, EZRA.— Terre Haute (1811-1877). Dr. Read 
was born on a farm near Urbana, Ohio, 1811, and died 
in Terre Haute, May 10, 1877, of carcinoma of the 
stomach. He was graduated from the Athens Univer- 




EZRA READ. 



332 UEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

sity, Ohio, and then from the Medical College of Ohio 
in 1835. He practiced in Cincinnati for a short time 
and then left for Texas. He participated in the Texas- 
Mexican War and was made Surgeon-in-Chief of the 
Texan army and also of the navy. In the history of 
the United States the little Texas navy is absolutely 
unique, and few people now know anything about its 
existence. Dr. Read located in Paris, 111., in 1840, and 
came to Terre Haute in 1844. At this time he found 
an active Vigo County Medical Society and took an 
active part in its affairs. During the Civil War he 
was surgeon for the Twenty-first Indiana Artillery, and 
later surgeon of the Eleventh Reg. Ind. Cav. He was 
president of the Vigo County Medical Society for two 
years, 1874-76. He was postmaster in Terre Haute 
under President Johnson. He was a great lover of 
books and accumulated quite a library, especially of the 
classics. He read Latin, Greek and French with facil- 
ity and could quote endlessly in the original from Vir- 
gil, Horace and Homer. He stood high in the profes- 
sion and was a great friend of the poor. The flags of 
the city were at half-mast at his death, and the whole 
community united at the funeral in honoring one who 
had done so much for them. — Drs. Charles N. Combs 
and Stephen J. Young, Terre Haute. In 1836, during 
the Texan war for independence, General Felix Huston 
and General Albert Sydney Johnston fought a duel. 
The latter was severely wounded in the hip and inca- 
pacitated for further service. Dr. Read was the attend- 
ing surgeon. General Johnston was killed at Shiloh. — 
G. W. H. K. 

REASONER, WILLIAM M. — Sulphur Springs 
(1828-1887). S. T. 1888, 202. 

REEVES, URIAH G.— Clifty (1820-1882). S. T. 
18S3, 266. 

REILEY, WILLIAM F.— Sardinia (1828-1895). S. 
T., 1896, 259. 

REXNER, JOHN G. E.— Indianapolis (1850-1878). 
S. T. 1880, 238. Dr. Renner was born in Germany, 
came to America late in the sixties, graduated from the 
University of Louisville in 1877, and immediately be- 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 333 

gan the practice of medicine in Indianapolis. "On the 
27th of August, 1878, he announced his conviction that 
his path of duty would lead him to the succor of the 
victims of yellow fever at Memphis, Tenn., and, despite 
all the remonstrances of friends, the evening of August 
29 found him domiciled in Memphis and ready with 
his share of help for the afflicted. He remained en- 
gaged in this self-imposed duty, rendering all the aid 
that stricken humanity could have expected from one 
man until September 11, when the relief -extending 
hand was itself paralyzed by the scourge whose rav- 
ages it had helped to mitigate, and after five days of 
torture, on Sept. 16, 1878, his light went out and his 
life was laid as a sacrifice upon the altar of our com- 
mon humanity." — Dr. I. A. E. Lyons. 

RICHARDSON, GEORGE T.— Delphi (1834-1880), 
S. T. 1881, 238. Dr. Richardson served for a time as a 
lieutenant in the Civil War. In 1862, and again in 
1872, he was elected to the legislature to represent 
White and Benton counties the first time and Carroll 
county the second time. 

RICHARDSON, NEHEMIAH.— Vernon (1824-1899). 
S. T. 1900, 335. 

RICHMOND, CORYDON.— Kokomo (1808-1906). 
Was born in Onondaga, New York, November 22, 1808, 
and died at Kokomo, October 1, 1906. He was a son 
of Dr. John L. Richmond. He was a graduate of the 
Ohio Medical College 1832, and immediately located 
at Pendleton, where he continued in practice until 
1838, when he removed to Indianapolis, where he and 
his father entered into partnership with Dr. G. W. 
Mears. In 1844 he visited the Indian Reserve, as it 
was then cahed, in Howard County, and, after exam- 
ining it, decided to locate there. The same season, he 
and some others built cabins and removed their fami- 
lies to them, and this was the beginning of the present 
city of Kokomo. In 1847 he represented Howard and 
Cass Counties in the legislature. In 1863 he became 
assistant surgeon in Military Hospital No. 3, Nash- 
ville, Tennessee, where he remained some time. In 
March, 1865, he again returned to Nashville and ren- 



:Y34 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

dered medical services to colored troops. In 1867 he 
was elected mayor of Kokomo, and served two years. 
During his long residence in Kokomo, "he preserved 
a healthful uniformity of life, never mounting to the 
heights of fame, nor ever descending beneath the level 
of true manhood." — See an interesting sketch of his 
life in Am. Biog. Hist, of Eminent and Self -Made Men 
of Indiana, Dist. 11, p. 40. 

RICHMOND, JOHN L.— Indianapolis (1785-1855). 
Born in Massachusetts, April 5, 1785, and died at Cov- 
ington, Indiana, in October, 1855. First practiced 
medicine at Newtown, Ohio, where he performed a 
Cesarean operation, April 23, 1827. Possibly this was 
the first recorded case of Cesarean operation in the 
United States. He saved the mother but lost the child. 
See Western Jour. Med. and Physical Sciences, Vol. iii, 
485 (1830). See same case, with comments, by G. W. 
H. Kemper, Indianapolis Med. Jour., Vol. xii, 376. Is 
mentioned in Churchill's Midwifery (1857), 363, but 
the author erroneously states that the child was saved. 

In the early 30's Dr. Richmond removed to Pendle- 
ton, Indiana, where he assumed the pastorate of a Bap- 
tist church and practiced medicine. After a few years 
he removed to Indianapolis anu" formed a partnership 
with Dr. G. W. Mears. In 1842 he was stricken with 
paralysis, when he abandoned practice and removed to 
Covington, where he died and was buried. Some years 
later his body and also that of his wife were reinterred 
at Lafaj r ette, Ind. See Dr. W. H. Wishard's paper, 
Trans. 1893, 24, and also in I. M. J., Vol. xi, 199 
(January, 1893). Also see interesting letter by Dr. 
\V. N. Wishard, I. M. J., Vol. xxvii, 112 (September, 
1908). 

ROBBINS, ALFRED H.— Rochester (1826-1906). 
Was born in Adams County, Ohio, July 4, 1826, and 
came with his parents to Henry County, Indiana, in 
1829; removed to Fulton County in 1836; graduated 
at the University of Buffalo, in 1850, and began the 
practice of medicine in Rochester same year. In 1856, 
and 1860 was elected and represented Fulton County in 
the State Legislature, serving also at the special ses- 




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MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 335 

sion at the outbreak of the rebellion. In 18G1 he was 
elected vice-president of the State Medical Society, and 
served at session of 1862. Died October 8, 1906 — 
Sketch furnished by Dr. M. O. King, Rochester. 

ROGERS, JOSEPH H. D.— Madison (1805-1885). 
Was born near Lexington, Ky., in 1805. He graduated 
in medicine at the Transylvania University. He was a 
colonel in the Texan rebellion, and about 1840, per- 
manently settled in Madison, where he established a 
large practice up to the time of his retirement from 
active practice about 1875. He was a man of large 
physique and strong personality, and enjoyed a rather 
widespread reputation as a surgeon in southern In- 
diana and northern Kentucky. He died at Madison in 
1885. (From a letter of Dr. Clarke Rogers, Logans- 
port, a grandson.) Dr. Rogers was present at the 
organization of the State Medical Society in 1849. He 
was the father of the late Dr. Joseph G. Rogers. 

ROGERS, JOSEPH G. (1841-1908). Dr. Rogers was 
a native of Indiana, and all his medical services were 
given to the afflicted of his native state. The mention 
of his name calls up a vision of a Hospital for the 
Insane. He graduated in medicine in 1864, and was 
immediately commissioned as an acting assistant sur- 
geon, United States army, on duty at Madison, Ind. 
This position he filled until the close of the war. In 
1875-76 he was Professor of Materia Medica and 
Therapeutics in the Indiana College of Physicians and 
Surgeons. From 1879 to 1883 he was superintendent 
of the Indiana Hospital for Insane at Indianapolis. He 
was Medical Engineer on the Board of Commissioners 
for Additional Hospitals for Insane from its organiza- 
tion in 1883 up to the completion of the new hospitals 
in 1888; at the same time he was Superintendent of 
Construction for the Northern Hospital (Longcliff), 
and on its completion was appointed Medical Superin- 
tendent, a position he held continuously until the date 
of his death. 

Dr. Rogers was the first to make a quantitative 
chemical examination of the waters of Orange county, 



336 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

and suggested the name, "Pluto's Well." He devised a 
method for preventing the incrustations in boilers 
which became commercially successful. 

He contributed a number of valuable articles on sub- 
jects relating to the insane. In the Indiana Medical 
Journal for October, 1901, is a thoughtful article from 
his pen entitled "Cold as a Cure for Tetanus." 

Various other articles on a diversity of subjects have 
been contributed by Dr. Rogers. Dr. Robert Hessler of 
Logansport has given (The Journal of the Indiana State 
Medical Association, May. 1908, 205) a valuable 
epitome of the life and professional work of Dr. Rog- 
ers, from which I have largely extracted this sketch, 
and to which the reader is referred for fuller informa- 
tion. Also to Stone, 428. Also a tribute "In Memo- 
riam," by Dr. Samuel E. Smith, I. M. J., Vol. xxvi, 450. 

ROOKER, JAMES I.— Castleton (1833-1896). Dr. 
Rooker was assistant surgeon of the Eleventh Reg. Ind. 
Vols, from 1861 to 1863. From 1875 to 1879 he lec- 
tured on physical diagnosis at the College of Physi- 
cians and Surgeons. He was one of the founders of the 
Central College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1879, 
and again lectured on physical diagnosis. His papers 
before the State Society were on "Camp Diarrhea," 
Trans. 1864, 33; "A Few Thoughts on How to Obtain 
Practice," 1873, 95; "The Indiscriminate Use of Hypo- 
dermic Medication," 1877, 89; "The Medical Proper- 
ties of Fraxinus Americanus," 1886, 48; and "Thirty- 
three Years a Country Doctor," 1889, 121. For biog- 
raphy see I. M. J., Vol. xiv, 444. Stone (with por- 
trait), 428. 

ROSE, MADISON H.— Thorntown (1832-1904). S. 
T. 1905, 456. Dr. Rose graduated from the medical 
department of ,the University of Buffalo in 1861. He 
was surgeon of the Fifty-third Reg. Ind. Vols, from 
March, 1863, to April, 1865. 

ROSENTHAL, ISAAC M.— Ft. Wayne (1831-1906). 
S. T. 1907, 473. Dr. Rosenthal was born in Germany. 
He practiced medicine in Ft. Wayne continuously for 
forty-six years. He was a Jew, not narrow, and was 
loved bv all. 




ISAAC M. ROSENTHAL. 



338 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

"A curious incident in his life was the fact that he 
suffered from a purulent otitis media for more than 
fifty years, caused hy the explosion of a gun. He 
steadfastly refused surgical relief, and finally died 
from an abscess of the brain with diffuse meningeal 
infection caused by an extension of the middle ear dis- 
ease to the temporo-sphenoidal lobe of the brain. If 
he had consented to the removal of this focus of infec- 
tion years before he should be living now in a fair state 
of health."— Dr. G. W. McCaskey. See I. M. J., Vol. 
xxv, 195. 

ROSS, CHARLES A.— U. S. Army (1875-1901). S. 
T. 1901, 497. Soon after graduation, in order to gain 
greater surgical experience, he decided to enlist in the 
army. He successfully passed the rigid examination 
necessary in August, 1900, and was soon commissioned 
an assistant surgeon in the U. S. Army and ordered to 
the Philippines. He had been in the islands only about 
three months when he was stricken down. 

"Dr. Ross died on the fighting line in northern 
Luzon, Philippine Islands. A soldier had been wounded, 
and Dr. Ross, accompanied by two hospital stewards. 
went to carry the wounded man to the hospital tent. 
It was while in the performance of this duty that he 
was fired upon from ambush, and his young life ebbed 
away there upon the battle-field while heroically min- 
istering to one who was fighting for his country." — Dr. 
C. T. Hendershot. 

He was born in Crawford county, Indiana, and had 
for a short time practiced at Leopold, Perry county. 

ROSS, JONATHAN.— Blountsville (1828-1888). S. 
T. 188S, 211. Dr. Ross enlisted in the Thirty-sixth Reg. 
Ind. Vols, and later was promoted to first lieutenant 
in Company K, and was mustered out at the close of 
the war with his regiment. 

ROSS, JUSTIN P.— Marion (1840-1896). S. T. 
1896, 261. 

ROUS, HANNAH C— Vevay (1854-1905). S. T. 
1905, 457. Dr. Rous was secretary of the Switzerland 
County Medical Society from its organization until the 
vear before she died. I never sent her a blank for a 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 339 

report on necrology that she did not at once reply, "No 
death this year," or give the name if any member had 
died. She deserves this trifling tribute for her faith- 
fulness. 

RUBUSH, DAVID P.— Sharpsville (1847-1904). S. 
T. 1906, 502. At the age of 16 he left Tennessee and 
came to Indiana, where he enlisted in the service of his. 
country and was assigned to the Twenty-fifth Independ- 
ent Battery, Light Artillery, where he served with 
credit till the close of the civil war, receiving an honor- 
able discharge. See I. M. J., Vol. xxii, 473. Also Med. 
and Surg. Monitor (with picture), Vol. vii, 145. 

RUNDELL, ALPHARIS E.— Clay county (1850- 
1900). S. T. 1900, 499. 

SANBORN, PERLEY P.— Angola (1861-1897). 1. 
M. J., Vol. xv, 380. 

SANFORD, JAMES II.— Shelbyville (1838-1903). S. 
T. 1904, 361. 

SCHAFER, ALBERT F.— South Bend (1863-1898). 
S= T. 1899, 391. 

SCHMIDT, ELIZABETH. — Indianapolis (1827- 
1904). I. M. J., Vol. xxii, 418. 

SCHMIDTZ, CHARLES.— Ft. Wayne (1809-1887). 
S. T. 1887, 196. 

SCHULTZ, OSCAR T.— Mt. Vernon (1848-1890). S. 
T. 1890, 164. 

SCOTT, DANIEL V.— Jeffersonville (1872-1904). S. 
T. 1904, 363. 

SCOTT, GIDEON.— Greentown (1838-1898). S. T. 
1898, 388. 

SCOTT, WILLIAM.— Kokomo (1831-1895). Dr. 
Scott was a native of Ohio; a graduate of Rush Med- 
ical College. In 1881 he accepted the chair of diseases 
of the throat and respiratory organs in the Fort 
Wayne College of Medicine, which he filled until 1883. 
He was then appointed professor of diseases of the 
rectum and genito-urinary organs, and filled that posi- 
tion until 1888, when he resigned. For biography see 
Stone, 460; I. M. J., Vol. xiv, 275. 



340 MEDICAL EIBTORY OF INDIANA. 

SCRAMBLING, WILLIAM H.— Slash, Grant county 
(1842-1881). S. T., 1882, 196. 

SCRIBNER, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS.— New Albany 
(1800-1868). Born in Massachusetts, Feb. 19, 1800. 
and died at New Albany, April 16, 1868. Was a mem- 
ber of the Medical Convention, June 6, 1849. 

SCULL, DAVID C— Lebanon (1839-1897). S. T. 
1898, 377. He served three years as a soldier in the 
Thirteenth Reg. Ind. Vols. 

SEATON, WILLIAM H.— Indianapolis (1873-1899). 
S. T. 1900, 336. 

SEVERANCE, LA GRANGE.— Huntington (1839- 
1893). S. T. 1893, 256. 

SEXTON, HORATIO G.— Rushville (1796-1865). 
Born in Andover, New Hampshire, Jan. 21, 1796. See 
p. 77. 

SEXTON, MARSHALL.— Rushville (1823-1892). S. 
T. 1892, 286. Son of the above. Born, lived and died 
at Rushville. Was surgeon for some months of the 
Fifty-second Reg. Ind. Vols. Was elected president of 
the State Medical Society in 1881 and presided in 1882. 
He contributed the following papers to the State So- 
ciety: "Case of Dislocation of Femur Upward and 
Backward, Reduced by Manipulation," Trans. 1869, 31; 
"Rupture of the Uterus and Vagina, Case — , Recov- 
ery," Trans. 1873, 107; and "President's Address, 
Boards of Health, Medical Legislation, and the Rights 
and Duties of Physicians Under the Law," Trans. 1882, 
1. He is said to have been the first white male child 
born in Rushville and the first graduate of medicine in 
Rush county. See memoriam, I. M. J., Vol. x, 182. 

SHELLHAMER, CAREY.— Pioneer (1845-1907). S. 
T. 1907, 494. 

SHIDLER, ARTHUR L.— Lakeville (1860-1899). S. 
T. 1900, 337. 

SHIELDS, PLEASANT SCOTT.— New Albany, 
(1806-1875). Dr. Shields was born near Georgetown, 
Ind., November 30, 1806, and died at New Albany, 
January 29, 1875. He remained at the place of his 
birth until his majority, when he went, to New Albany. 




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MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 341 

and entered the office of Dr. Asahel Clapp to study 
medicine. He returned to Georgetown and practiced 
for several years. In 1832, he removed to New Al- 
bany, where he lived until the day of his death, be- 
loved by all. He was the poor man's friend. Was 
an Elder in the First Presbyterian Church. — The above 
written in a neat hand, was furnished me by Mrs. 
Aresta Nunemacher, aged 81 years, a relative of Dr. 
Shields.— G. W. H. K. 

He was present at the medical convention held at 
Indianapolis, June 6, 1849. 

SHIPMAN, NORBOURN N.— Seymour (1829-1902). 
S. T. 1902, 423. He contributed an article on "Preter- 
natural Sleep," Trans. 1892, 146. 

SHIRTS, ELMER— Bloomfield (1861-1908). J. I. 
S. M. A., Vol. i, 112. 

SHIVELY, JAMES S.— Marion (1813-1893). S. T. 
1893, 260. He was born in Morgantown, Va., April 8, 
1813. After due preparation for the practice of medi- 
cine he located in Marion, where he remained until his 
death. He was respected and honored by all. He was 
four times elected to serve his constituents in the State 
Legislature. To him, as joint senator, the profession is 
indebted for the present law governing the practice of 
medicine. See Stone, 465, for biography and portrait. 
I. M. J., Vol. xi, 376. 

SHOPTAUGH, SHELTON H.— Princeton (1840- 
1898). S. T. 1899, 387. 

SHOW ALTER, D. T.— Montpelier (1845-1883). S. 
T. 1883, 272. 

SIEBER, JOHN A.— Ferdinand (1853-1883). S. T. 
1883, 279. 

SIMISON, JOHN.— Romney (1824-1902). I. M. J., 
Vol. xxi, 134. 

SINEX, WILLIAM G.— New Albany (1826-1899). 
Was born in New Albany, Nov. 27, 1826, and died in 
the same city, March 25, 1899. He was a graduate of 
Asbury (Greencastle) College. Graduated at one of 
the medical schools of Philadelphia. He was one of 



342 UEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

the members of the Medical Convention of 1849. — Mrs. 
Olive E. Sinex, Indianapolis, daughter-in-law. 

SKIFF, CLARK.— Selma (1826-1888). S. T. 1889, 
212. 

SLOAN, GEORGE W.— Indianapolis (1835-1903). S. 
T. 1903, 354. A native of Pennsylvania, he came to 
Indianapolis as a child in 1837. and remained there 
until he died. He was not a practicing physician, but 
was a lecturer on pharmacy in the Indiana Medical 
College, and in 1879 and 1880 was president of the 
American Pharmaceutical Society. 

He was a first lieutenant in Company B, 132d Reg. 
Ind. Vols., in the Civil War. See biographical sketch. 
I. M. J.. Vol. xxi. 399; also, ib.. Vol. xxii. 240. 

SLOAN, JOHN.— Xew Albany (1815-1898). S. T. 
1898, 392. Dr. Sloan was born in Westbrook. Maine. 
Sept. 15, 1815. Graduated at Bowdoin College in 1837. 
and located in New Albany in 1838. Here he lived 
until tl'.e date of his death. 

"His was a long career. He was in active practice 
before the days of anesthetics, when calomel was the 
cure-all and blood-letting a 'fine art.' He was in the 
prime of manhood when the Civil War came and gave a 
new impetus to the study of surgery. The afternoon 
and evening of his life witnessed the advent and con- 
tinuance of the antiseptic era." — Dr. E. P. Earley. 

He was present at the formation of the State Society 
in 1849, and at that meeting was erroneously accredited 
to Crawfordsville. See I. M. J., Vol. xvi, 414. 

SMITH. ANDREW J.— Wabash (1830-1900). I. M. 
J., Vol. xix, 284. 

SMITH, HUBBARD M.— Vincennes (1820-1907). 
Dr. Smith was well known as a physician, writer and 
educator. Following his graduation in 1847 he located 
in Vincennes, where he commenced the practice of medi- 
cine, and continued the same until his death. He was 
the first physician in Vincennes to recognize the pres- 
ence of cholera in 1849. 

He was among the first to champion the cause of 
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UEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 343 

of the Vincennes Gazette, in I860, and was made post- 
master at that place from 1861 to 1809. 

Dr. Smith contributed an interesting article on 
"Medicine in the Northwestern Territory; A Contri- 
bution to the Early Medical History of Indiana." 
Trans. 190G, 438. This article is reproduced on p. IS. 
He was a poet of no mean order. A collection of his 
poems entitled "At Midnight and Other Poems" was 
published in book form by Carlin & Hollenbeck in 1898. 
His last contribution was "Historical Sketches of Old 
Vincennes." 

He believed it to be his patriotic duty to take an 
interest in the affairs of his city, his state, and his 
nation on all matters of public interest, and he did so. 

For biography see Journal of the Indiana State 
Medical Association, Vol. i, 29. Also, American Bio- 
graphical History of Eminent and Self-Made Men of 
the State of Indiana, 1880, Second District, p. 32. A 
letter. I. M. J., Vol. xxv, 302. See poem, Conscience." 
I. M. J., Vol. xvi, 31G. 

SMITH, JOHN W — Gosport (1830-1903). S. T. 
1903, 355. 

SMITH, LESTER F.— Brazil (1883-1907). S. T., 
1907, 477. 

SMITH, THEOPHILUS E.— Columbus (1846-1890). 
S. T. 1890, 166. See I. M. J., Vol. xi, 179. 

SMITH, WILLIAM G.— Winchester (1837-189.2). S. 
T., 1893, 247. 

SMITH, WYCLIFFE.— Delphi (1851-1900). Was 
surgeon of the 161st Reg. Ind. Vols, in the Spanish- 
American War. Was accidentally killed by an express 
train near Delphi, Dec. 29. 1900. See I. M. J., Vol. 
xviii, 315. 

SMYTHE, GONSOLVO C— Greencastle (1836-1897). 
S. T. 1897, 354. Dr. Smythe began practice at Fill- 
more, near Greencastle, in 1860. He entered the army 
in 1862, as assistant surgeon of the Forty-third Reg. 
Ind. Vols., and served until the close of the war, when 
he began practice at Greencastle. In 1879 he was 
elected to the chair of Medicine and Sanitary Science 



344 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

in the College of Physicians and .Surgeons at Indian- 
apolis. In 1890 he was elected president of the State 
Medical Society. He contributed a number of papers 
to the State Society: "Acute Articular Rheumatism," 
Trans. 1888, 33; "The Hydro-therapeutic Treatment of 
Typhoid Fever," Trans. 1889, 60; "President's Ad- 
dress; The Influence of Heredity in Producing Disease 
and Degeneracy, and Its Remedy," Trans. 1891, 1, and 
"The Treatment of Alcoholism,"" Trans. 1895, 338. He 
was also a frequent contributor to medical journals. 
He is the author of a book on "Medical Heresies, His- 
torically Considered," a book of 228 pages, published 
by the Blakiston house in 1880. It is claimed "that 
he was the first physician in America to use the hypo- 
dermic syringe." See I. M. J., Vol. xv, 382. 

SPAIN, ARCHIBALD W.— Terre Haute (1837- 
1898). S. T. 1898, 385. 

SPARKS, JAMES B.— Carthage (1833-1895). S. T. 
1896, 253. 

SPINNING, JOHN N.— Covington (1822-1890). S. 
T. 1890, 162. 

SPURRIER, JOHN H.— Rushville (1829-1902). S. 
T. 1902, 424. He was assistant surgeon of the Six- 
teenth Reg. and later surgeon of the 123d Reg. Ind. 
Vols., serving in the latter to the close of the war. 

STAGE, LOUIS J.— Vallonia (1821-1880). S. T. 
1882, 195. 

STANTON, D. S.— Portland (1822-1906). S. T. 
1907, 487. 

STARR, ILER D.— New Albany (1874-1899). S. T. 
1900, 338. 

STEELE, ARMSTRONG T. — Waveland (1834- 
1884). S. T. 1887, 187. 

STEELSMITH, JOHN M.— Boone county (1825- 
1900). S. T. 1900, 339. 

STEVENS, BENJAMIN C. — Logansport (1850- 
1908). 

STEVENS, OLIVER P.— Maxinkuckee (1820-1888). 
S. T. 1888, 214. Formerly practiced at Kendallville, 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 345 

removed to Wisconsin, and during the Civil War was 
surgeon of the Forty-second Reg. Wisconsin Vols. At 
the close of the war he returned to Indiana. 

STEVENS, THADDEUS M.— Indianapolis (1829 
1885). S. T. 1886, 207. Born, reared and died in In- 
dianapolis. Was professor of toxicology, medical 
jurisprudence and chemistry in the Indiana Medical 
College in 1870. In 1874, occupied the same chair in 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons. For a time 
he was editor of the Indiana Medical Journal. He was 
the first secretary and executive officer of the State 
Board of Health. He was prominent in all reforms 
tending to advance the profession of the state. He 
contributed a number of papers to the State Society: 
"The Treatment of the Criminal Insane," Trans. 1871, 
193; "Medicolegal Science," Trans. 1872, 51; "Report 
on Medical History of Indiana," Trans. 1874, 17; 
"State Boards of Health," Trans. 1875, 65; "Report of 
Public Hygiene in Indiana," Trans. 1878, 67; "Sani- 
tary Survey of Indianapolis," Trans. 1880, 193; "State 
Medicine," Trans. 1881, 23; "The Need of Hospitals in 
Indiana, Constructed and Controlled by State Author- 
ity," Trans. 1882, 56; "Dr. Stevens vs. State Board of 
Health," Trans. 1883, 70; "The Relative Value of 
Bovine and Humanized Vaccine Virus, Practically 
Considered," ib., 213; "Report of Committee on Med- 
ical Legislation," ib., 239; and "Report of Committee 
on State Medicine," Trans. 1884, 24. See Stone, 682, 
and Robson, 341. Obituary, I. M. J., Vol. iv, 109. 

STEWART, JOHN L.— New Albany (1835-1898). S. 
T. 1899, 386. 

STILLSON, JOSEPH. — Bedford (1815-1885). S. 
T. 1886, 204. 

STILLWELL, JOSEPH A.— Brownstown (1831- 
1894). S. T. 1895, 401. 

STOCKWELL, SARAH F.— South Bend (1841- 
1904). S. T. 1904, 362. 

STRONG, JOHN T.— Plainfield (1840-1895). I. M. 
J., Vol. xiv, 142. 



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UEDWAL IIISTOL'Y or INDIANA 



SUTTON, GEORGE.— Aurora (1812-1881.). S. T. 
L880 s 219. Dr. Sutton was born in London, England, 
June 1G, 1812, and came to America with his parents 
when young (1819). Graduated at the Ohio Medical 
College in 1S36, and the same year began the practice 
of medicine at Aurora. In the spring of 1843 he was 
instrumental in organizing the first county medical 
society in Dearborn county. He joined the State Med- 




GEORGE SUTTON. 



ical Society in 1852, and was elected its president in 
1869 and presided in 1870. The State Transactions 
contain the following papers from his pen: "A Report 
to the Indiana State Medical Society on Asiatic Chol- 
era as it Prevailed in This State in 1849-50-51-52," 
1853, 109; "Preliminary Report on Milk Sickness as it 
Prevails Within the State of Indiana," 1853, 176; 



MEDICAL II/sTOin OF INDIANA. 347 

"Report on Erysipelas," 1856, 41 ; "Report on Cholera," 
1867, 85; and 1868, 51; "President's Address: Man's 
Power Over Nature, and Medicines as Means by Which 
He Aids and Controls the Laws of Life," 1870, 1; 
"Report on the Diseases of Indiana for the Year 1872, 
with a Brief Outline of the Medical Topography and 
Climatology of Different Localities," 1873, 61; "A 
Report on Trichinosis, as Observed in Dearborn 
County in 1874," 1875, 109; "On the Reduction of Dis- 
location of Hip-joint by Manipulating the Femur as a 
Lever Over a Fulcrum Placed in the Groin," 1876, 139; 
"Placenta Previa," 1878, 111; "Parasites, and Their 
Effects Upon the Human System," 1883, 53, and "A 
Review of the Epidemics That Have Occurred in South- 
eastern Indiana During the Last Fifty Years, and the 
Observations on Change of Type in Our Endemic 
Malarial Diseases," 1885, 104. Every one of these 
reports was prepared with extreme care and all are 
valuable. Under the head of "Epidemics," I have 
referred to the valuable paper of Dr. Sutton, "Remarks 
on an Epidemic Erysipelas Known by the Popular 
name of 'Black Tongue,' which prevailed in Ripley and 
Dearborn Counties, Indiana." Western Lancet, Novem- 
ber, 1843. This whole article was reproduced in "Nun- 
neley on Erysipelas," ed. 1844, 95. Various other med- 
ical papers, as well as articles on scientific subjects, 
have been contributed from time to time by Dr. Sutton. 
For biography see Pobson, 293; Stone, 686; Am. Bio- 
graphical History of Eminent and Self-made Men of 
the State of Indiana, 1880, Fourth District, 65. 

SUTTON. JAMES A.— Argos (1840-1893). S. T. 
1894. 216. Served as a private soldier from August, 
1862, to July 19, 1865, in the Fifth Reg. Ind. Cav. 
Studied medicine after his return home. 

SUTTON, WILLIS E.— Aurora (1848-1879). S. T. 
1880, 242. R. M. of Ind., Dist. 4, p. 70. 

SUMMERS, OSA R.— Middletown (1874-1904). S. 
T. 1905, 458. 

SWAFFORD, BENJAMIN F.— Terre Haute (1833- 
1901). I. M. J., Vol. xix. 318. Was surgeon of the 
Eleventh Reg. Ind. Cav. R. M. of Ind.. Dist. 8, p. 47. 



348 MEDICAL HI STORY OF IX DIANA. 

SWARTS, DAVID J.— Auburn (1832-1905). S. T. 
1905, 459. He enlisted in the 100th Reg. Ind. Vols., 
was commissioned a lieutenant, and later assistant sur- 
geon of same regiment. 

TAGGART, SAMUEL C— Charlestown (1828-1901). 
S. T. 1901, 500. 

TEAL, NORMAN.— Kendallville (1829-1899). S. T. 
1S99, 403. Dr. Teal was assistant surgeon of the 
Eighty-eighth Reg. Ind. Vols, from Aug. 30, 1862, until 
the regiment was mustered out of service. I. M. J., 
Vol. xvii, 405. 

TERRILL, WILLIAM H., Sr. — Petersburg, Ky. 
(1829-1885). S. T. 1886, 210. 

TERRILL, WILLIAM H., Jr.— Lawrenceburg ( 1852- 
1887). S. T. 1888, 200. 

THOMAS, ANDREW J.— Evansville (1840-1898). 
Was an ex-superintendent of the Southern Indiana Hos- 
pital for the Insane. See I. M. J., Vol. xvii, 36, for 
interesting memoir by Dr. E. C. Reyer. 

THOMAS, MARY F.— Richmond (1816-1888). S. T. 
1889, 210. Dr. Thomas was a faithful worker in every- 
thing that aimed to make the human race better. She 
was an industrious writer and contributed a number of 
articles to the State Medical Society: "Women Physi- 
cians in Hospitals for Insane Women," Trans. 1880, 
184; "Report of Committee Regarding the Employment 
of Female Physicians in Hospitals for the Insane," 
1882, 80; "The Influence of the Medical Colleges of the 
Regular School of Indianapolis on the Medical Educa- 
tion of the Women of the State," 1883, 228; "W T omen 
Physicians for Insane Women," 1884, 203; "Some 
Thoughts on Post-Partum Hemorrhage," 1885, 125; and 
"Heredity," 1887, 97. 

THOMAS, WARREN H.— Elkhart (1837-1906). S. 
T. 1907, 481. 

THOMAS, WILLIAM H.— Indianapolis (1834-1903). 
I. M. J., Vol. xxii, 189. 

THOMPSON, DANIEL A.— Indianapolis (1862- 
1904). S. T. 1905, 460. Dr. Thompson was a native of 
Rush county, Indiana. As a specialist in diseases of the 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 349 

eye he took a high rank. In 1890 he succeeded to his 
father's position as professor of diseases of the eye, in 
the Medical College of Indiana. Dr. Thompson was 
noted for his charity work to the poor, and was a 
favorite with his pupils. "He was not a frequent 
writer, but he was a clear and forceful teacher, both 
didactic and clinical — an actor rather than a declaimer 
in the drama of our profession." His article on "The 
Iris," Trans. 1891, 195, is a most excellent contribution 
to our medical literature. See I. M. J., Vol. xxiii, 205. 
(Picture.) 

THOMPSON, JOHN H.—Otterbein (1817-1883). S. 
T. 1884, 215. 

THOMPSON, JOHN J.— Sullivan (1824-1899). S. 
T. 1899, 406. I. M. J., Vol. xvii, 405. 

THOMPSON, WILLIAM C— Indianapolis (1812- 
1897). He was present at the formation of the State 
Medical Society in 1849. He practiced at several places 
before finally locating permanently at Indianapolis. He 
was commissioned surgeon of volunteers by Presi- 
dent Lincoln. For several years he was a member of 
the State Legislature. He had retired from active prac- 
tice. See Stone, 688, with portrait. Also I. M. J., Vol. 
xv, 470. 

THORNE, J. C. F.— Kokomo (1857-1908). J. I. S. 
M. A., Vol. i, 330. 

TILFORD, SALEM A.— Martinsville (1827-1893). S. 
T., 1894, 221. 

TILLSON, HOSEA.— Centerville (1830-1902). S. T. 
1903, 356. Dr. Tillson was a faithful soldier, and later 
assistant surgeon, in the Fifty-seventh Reg. Ind. Vols. 

TINGLEY, URIAH B.— Harrisburg (1816-1899).' I. 
M. J., Vol. xvii, 324. 

TODD, LEVI L.— Indianapolis (1830-1901). S. T. 
1902, 425. See also I. M. J., Vol. xx, 226; Stone, 690. 
He contributed to the Transactions, "The Therapeutic 
Properties of Opium," 1877, 79; and "Modern Thera- 
peutics," 1886, 123. 

TODD, ROBERT N.— Indianapolis (1827-1883). S. 
T. 1884, 209. Born in Kentucky, he came with his 



]£EDICAL BISTORT OF INDIAN I. 

parents to Indiana in 1834. He graduated at the In- 
diana Central Medical College in 1850. Practiced for 
a time at Southport. Was surgeon of the Twenty-sixth 
Ind. Vols. In 1869 he was chosen as teacher of 
theory and practice, in which he continued until the 
spring of 1874, when he was assigned to the same de- 
partment in the College of Physicians and Surgeons 
until 1878, when he was elected to the chair of princi- 




ROBERT N. TODD. 

pies and practice of medicine, which he continued to 
hold until his death. Was elected president of the State 
Medical Society in 1870, and presided in 1871. The 
presidential address was on "The Medical Profession 
and the Administration of Justice," Trans. 1871, 1. See 
Stone, with portrait, 510. See I. M. J., Vol. ii, 65. 




G. B. WALKER 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 351 

TOMS, ALPHEUS.— Goshen (1841-1900). I. M. J., 
Yo\. xxv, 297. A veteran of the Civil War. 

TREMBLEY, G. D.— Bippus (1846-1888). S. T. 
1889, 209. 

TROWBRIDGE, WILLIAM V. — Burnetts Creek 
(1833-1897). S. T. 1898, 374. 

TUCKER, THOMAS M.— Salem (1828-1895). S. T. 
1896, 257. 

TURNER, GEORGE W.— Freedom (1864-1900). S. 
T. 1901, 501. Served for some time in the hospital 
corps in a Porto Rican hospital. 

"VAN BUSKIRK, AARON E.— Fort Wayne (1847- 
1904). S. T. 1904, 364. In the Fort Wayne College of 
Medicine he was for a number of years an active mem 
ber of the faculty, and taught at various times the fol- 
lowing branches: anatomy, physiology, pathology, sur- 
gery, theory and practice, and diseases of the nervous 
system. See I. M. J., Vol. xxii, 417. 
V VAN NUYS, S. C— Bloomington (IS— 1898). He 
was for many years at the head of the department of 
chemistry in the State University, Bloomington. While 
there he wrote a text-book on the analysis of the urine. 

VICKREY, ABSALOM M.— Tipton (1822-1886). S. 
T. 1886, 212. 

VICKREY, MARTIN V. B.— Tipton ( 1838-1897) . 

VINCENT, HENRY C— Guilford ( 1826-1891 ) . S. T. 
1891, 287; and 1892, 280. Was assistant surgeon for a 
time in the Eighty-third Reg. Ind. Vols. 

WALKER, DAVID R.— Lebanon (1844-1902). S. T. 
1902, 426. 

WALKER, EDWARD.— Delphi (1829-1908). J. I. S. 
M. A., Vol. i, 112. 

WALKER, GEORGE B.— Evansville (1807-1887). 
S. T. 1888, 206. "Report on Diseases and Displace- 
ments of the Uterus." — Trans. 1855. p. 37. 

.WALKER, ISAAC C— Indianapolis (1828-1906). 
Dr. W T alker first practiced in Peru, and removed to 
Indianapolis in 1872. He was professor of diseases of 
the mind and nervous system in the Indiana Medical 
College for thirty-three years. I. M. J., Vol. xxv, 195. 



352 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

Contributed to the State Medical Society: "Final Ill- 
ness of Dr. James S. Athon. Post-Mortem Examina- 
tion and Remarks Upon the Preventive Treatment of 
Apoplexy." Trans. 1875, 122. Also, "Case of Anom- 
alous Growth of the Brain." Trans. 1880, 44. 

WALKER, JAMES K.— Loogootee (1842-1887). S. 
T. 1887, 197. Served through the Civil War as a Con- 
federate soldier, and came from Kentucky to Loogootee 
in 1871, where he continued to practice until a short 
time before his death. 

WALKER, JOHN C— Indianapolis (1828-1883). 
He was for a time editor of the Laporte Times. In 
1853 was elected to the State Legislature. In 1855 
became a joint owner of the Indianapolis Sentinel. He 
went to the front as colonel of the Thirty-fifth Reg. 
Ind. Vols., and served one year in that capacity. In 
1879 he was appointed assistant physician in the In- 
diana Hospital for the Insane, but died soon after 
from hasty consumption. Condensed from Stone, 521. 

WALL, DAVID.— Indianapolis (1836-1903). I. M. 
J., Vol. xxi, 440. 

WALTER, C. G.— Lawrenceburg (1820-1895). S. T. 
1896, 252. 

WARDNER, HORACE.— Laporte (1829-1905). S. 
T. 1905, 461. Served as a surgeon in several capacities 
with Illinois regiments in the Civil War. 

WARFORD, FRANKLIN M.— Cicero (1834-1909). 
He resided in Cicero for forty-four years, and thirty- 
nine years of that time was an active practitioner. 
He served a short time in the 40th Reg. Ind. Inf., and 
later as Ass't Surg, of the 3rd Reg. Iowa Cav., and 
later in the 4th Arkansas Cav. At the close of the 
war he located in Cicero. See Robson, p. 528. 

WASHBURN, ISRAEL B.— Rensselaer (1838-1903). 
I. M. J., Vol. xxii, 287. Was surgeon of the Forty- 
sixth Reg. Ind. Vols, in the Civil War. 

WASHBURN, ROBERT R.— Waldron (1833-1900). 
S. T. 1901, 502. Was a soldier of the Civil War. 

WATERS, JOHN C— Indianapolis (1830-1884). S. 
T. 1885, 222. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 353 

WATTS, EBER K.— Richmond (1854-1905). S. T. 
1905, 462. 

WEDDINGTON, SAMUEL C— Jonesboro (1823- 
1886). S. T. 1886, 217. Dr. Weddington was assist- 
ant surgeon of the 147th Reg. Ind. Vols. He con- 
tributed the following named articles to the State 
Medical Society: "Cancer," Trans. 1877, 103; "A 
Case of Placenta Praevia," 1877, 119; "Kakonemia, or 
Pernicious Anemia," 1880, 35; and "Tumors of the 
Breast," 1885, 187. See Robson, 592. 

WEEKS, JOSEPH. — Mechanicsburg ( 1820-1908 ) . 
Practiced in Mechanicsburg from 1856 to date of his 
death. J. I. S. M. A., Vol. i, 477. 

WEIST, JACOB R.— Richmond (1834-1900). S. T. 
1900, 341. Dr. Weist was assistant surgeon of the 
Sixty-fifth Reg. Ohio Vols., and later was transferred 
to other Ohio regiments, where he served in the med- 
ical service until the close of the war. He was elected 
president of the Indiana State Medical Society in 1879. 
and presided at the session of 1880. He was professor 
of railroad surgery in the Indiana Central Medical 
College for a number of years. He contributed a num- 
ber of papers to the State Medical Society, one of them 
being a prize essay of great value to the profession. 
All are found in the State Transactions: "A Contri- 
bution to the Statistics in Relation to Foreign Bodies 
in the Air Passages," 1867, 70; "The Causes, Nature 
and Treatment of Cerebrospinal Meningitis," prize 
essay, 1868, 123; "Report on Board of Public Char- 
ities," 1870, 129; "President's Address— Problems in 
Relation to the Prevention of Disease," 1880, 1 ; "Hot 
Water in Surgical Practice," 1882, 29; and "Civil Mal- 
practice Suits; How Can the Physician Protect Him- 
self Against Them?" 1884, 132. See Robson, 111. 

WELBORN, GEORGE W. — Stewardsville (1844- 
1905). S. T. 1905, 463, Served in the hospital corps 
of the Sixtieth Reg. Ind. Vols. 

WELMAN, RICHMOND M.— Jasper (1824-1884). 
S. T. 1884, 218. In 1861 he entered the military 
service as captain of Company K, Twenty- seventh Reg. 
Ind. Vols. Later he was commissioned surgeon of the 



MEDICAL BIST0R1 OF INDIANA. 

Ninth Reg. Ind. Cav., and served in that capacity until 
the close of the war. 

WERMDTH, ADOLPH F.— Ft. Wayne (1877-1901). 
S. T. 1902, 427. 

WEST, CALVIN.— Hagerstown (1806-1863). He 
was born in Pennsylvania, August 9, 1806, and died 
at Hagerstown, August 25, 1863. He came to Hagers- 
town about the year 1834, and practiced there until 
the date of his death. In the Adjutant-General (Ind 
iana) Report, he is accredited as "additional assistant 
surgeon pro tern" of the 57th Reg. Ind. Inf. He was 
vice-president of the State Medical Society in 1857, 
1861 and again in 1863. 

He contributed the following named articles to the 
State Society: "Amputation at the Shoulder Joint," 

1857, 41; "Fracture at the Base of the Acromion," 

1858, 48; "Report on Microscopy," 1858, 51; 1859, 40, 
and 1861, 34. 

WEST, VINCENT T.— Princeton (1812-1889). S. T. 
1889, 217. 

WETHERILL, CHARLES M.— Lafayette (1825- 
1871). Dr. Wetherill was born in Philadelphia, Pa., 
November 4, 1825, and died in South Bethlehem, Pa., 
March 5, 1871. He was a graduate of the college de- 
partment of the University of Pennsylvania, and had 
an honorary degree of M.D. from the New York Med- 
ical College, 1853. He was a resident of Lafayette 
from 1855 to 1862. He was never in active practice 
but devoted his life to original research in organic 
chemistry. 

He also pursued his studies as a student in the 
Royal College of France, and later at the University 
of Giessen, Germany, under the tutorage of Justus von 
Liebig. In 1865 he was appointed chemist to the 
Agricultural Department in Washington, where he 
remained one year. He became professor of chemistry 
at Lehigh University in 1866, and continued in that 
position until his death. At the time of his death he 
had been chosen professor of chemistry in the College 
department of the University of Pennsylvania. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 355 

He contributed more than thirty scientific articles 
relating to chemistry, in various German and Ameri- 
can periodicals. One, a very interesting article on 
"Artificial Lactation," was contributed to the State 
Medical Society at the session of 1860. Trans. 1860, 
24.— From notes furnished by Dr. R. B. Wetherill, — 
s^n— - Lafayette. 

WHITCOMB, JAMES H.— Indianapolis (1840- 
1893). S. T. 1894, 217. 

WHITE, J. F.— Kosciusko county (1857-1883). S. 
T. 1883, 277. 

WHITESELL, PHILIP P.— Clarksville (1823-1896). 
S. T. 1896, 264. For a time in the Civil War, was cap- 
tain of Company E, Thirty-ninth Reg. Ind. Vols., and 
afterwards assistant surgeon, and surgeon of the 101st 
Reg. Ind. Vols. 

WILES, WILLIAM V.— Spencer (1827-1892). S. T. 
1893, 252. Dr. Wiles was assistant surgeon of the 
Eighty-fifth Reg. Ind. Vols. 

WILKINSON, JAMES J.— Orland (1842-1906). S. 
T. 1907, 491. 

WILLIAMS, CHARLES S.— Columbia City (1842- 
1905). S. T. 1906, 489. 

WILLIAMS, ELKAN AH.— (1822-1888). It is not 
generally known that the justly celebrated ophthal- 
mologist, the late Dr. Williams of Cincinnati was a 
native of Indiana. He was born in Lawrence county, 
Indiana, Dec. 19, 1822. He was a graduate of Asbury 
University, studied medicine at Bedford, graduated in 
medicine at the University of Louisville, 1850, and for 
the next two years was engaged in general practice in 
Indiana. In the spring of 1852 he located in Cincin- 
nati, but soon went abroad to study ophthalmology. 
In the spring of 1855 he returned to Cincinnati, and 
commenced practice as an exclusive specialist in dis- 
eases of the eye and ear. He is said to have been the 
first physician in America who confined his practice 
strictly to these branches. As practitioner, author, and 
teacher, he has hardly been excelled. (For details of 
his work see Stone, 553 ) . 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

WILLIAMS, HUGH T.— Rising Sun (1812-1879). S. 
T. 1880, 244. He participated in the chase of the rebel 
General, Morgan, through Indiana, and "was afterward 
complimented by Governor Morton for the gallantry 
and skill displayed on that occasion." He served one 
term in the legislature, representing Ohio and Switzer- 
land counties. 

WILLIAMS, JOHN.— Clay county (1811-1909). 

WILLIAMS, JOSEPH B.— Grafton (1844-1901). S. 
T. 1901, 503. 

WILLIAMS, LEROY B.— Deedsville (1847-1880). S. 
T. 1881, 230. 

WILLIAMS, LEWIS.— Marion (1825-1906). S. T. 
1906, 494. 

WILLIAMS, T. B.— J. I. S. M. A., Vol. i, 29. 

WILLIAMSON, W. T.— Fort Branch (1844-1908). 
J. I. S. M. A., Vol. i, 330. 

WILSON, J. H.— Plymouth (1838-1899). S. T. 1900.. 
343. He contributed in 1897 an article on "The Early 
Treatment of Slight Injuries," Trans. 1897, 312. At 
this meeting he showed three links of a trace chain that 
had been driven into the chest of a man in 1866, and 
remained until his death in 1897, when they were dis- 
covered at a post-mortem examination. Report of case. 
I. M. J., Vol. xvi, 21. See ib., xviii, 237. 

WILSON, ROBERT Q.— (1822-1902) . S. T. 1902, 
428. 

WIMMER, JAMES M.— Marion (1853-1897). S. 
T. 1898, 383. 

WINANS, HENRY C— Muncie (1829-1884). He 
was for a time surgeon of the Twenty-fifth Reg. 111. 
Vols. 

WINTON, HORACE.— North Manchester (1831- 
1893). See Am. Biog. Hist, of Eminent and Self-made 
Men of the State of Indiana, 1880, Eleventh Dist., p. 80. 
Contributed to the State Medical Society: "Two Sur- 
gical Cases." Trans. 1859, 45. 

WINTON, ROBERT.— Muncie (1820-1885). S. T. 
1886, 201. See also Am. Biog. Hist, of Eminent and 
Self-made Men of Indiana, 1880, Sixth Dist., p. 90. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 357 

WISHARD, JOSEPH M.— Greenwood (1838-1905). 
S. T. 1905, 464. Was surgeon of the Fifth Reg. Ind. 
Cav. For several months was a prisoner in Libby 
Prison. 

WOODBURN, FREDERICK C— Indianapolis ( 1866- 
1898). The records show that Frederick C. Woodburn, 
private Hospital Corps, United States Army, who gave 
his occupation as physician at the date of his enlist- 
ment, June 7, 1898, died Sept. 29, 1898, at General 
Hospital, Ponce, Porto Rico. — War Department, Jan. 
12, 1910. See "Diagnosis and Treatment of Valvular 
Disease of the Heart." Trans. 1891, 168. 

WOODBURN, JAMES H. — Indianapolis, 1822- 
1901). S. T. 1901, 504. For four years, 1860-1864, he 
was superintendent of the Central Hospital for the 
Insane. For eight years he was a member of the city 
council of Indianapolis. In 1884 he was elected presi- 
dent of the Indiana State Medical Society, and presided 
at session of 1885. His address was on the subject, 
"Have We Really Advanced in Knowledge and Im- 
proved in Practice?" Trans. 1885, 1. See Stone, 704; 
I. M. J., Vol. xix, 444; on page 445 his picture is 
shown by the side of Dr. W. H. Wishard, for whom he 
was thought to be when he died suddenly in a street 
car in Indianapolis. 

WOODEN, JOHN L.— Greensburg (1826-1886). S. 
T. 1887, 194. He was surgeon of the Sixty-eighth Reg. 
Ind. Vols. Was captured at Chickamauga and con- 
fined in Libby Prison for three months. After his 
release was made a brigade surgeon. 

WOODEN, WILLIAM H.— Greensburg (1857-1903). 
S. T. 1903, 357. 

WOODWORTH, BENJAMIN S.— Fort Wayne ( 1816- 
1891). S. T. 1892, 294. For forty years was a noted 
practitioner of Fort Wayne. Was elected president of 
the State Medical Society in 1860, and presided in 
1861. He contributed the following papers to the State 
Society: "President's Address," Trans. 1861, 12; 
"Dysentery, as it Prevailed in Allen County, Indiana, 



358 



MEDICAL lllsTom OF IMHA \ I. 



IStil." Iran-. L865, 40. See Robson, 36. R. M. of 
Ind., Dist. 12, i>. SI. 

WOOLEN, LEVIN J.— Vevay, (1834-1909). Dr. 
IVoolen was born in Dorchester County, Maryland, 
June 30, 1834, and died at Vevay, April 20, 1909. His 
professional life was spent in the counties of Jefferson 
and Switzerland, — Moorefield, Madison and Vevay. He 
was defeated for Congress in 1876, by Leonidas Sex- 




BENJAMIN S. WOODWORTH. 



ton. In 1878 he was elected to the State Senate, rep- 
resenting Switzerland and Ripley Counties. In 1886 
President Cleveland appointed Dr. Woolen as chief 
of division of swamp lands in the general office at 
Washington. He resigned this position in 1889, and 
after practicing his profession for a time in the latter 
city returned to his Vevay home. After returning 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 359 

home he was twice elected auditor of his county. In 
the Transactions for 1872, p. 25, he contributed, "His- 
tory of an Epidemic of Parotitis in Switzerland 
County," also, "A Case of Adenia," Trans. 1884, p. 
188. He was also author of a book entitled "The 
Mother's Hand Book,' which he intended for the use 
of mothers of households in the State. See tribute to 
his memory, by Dr. W. R. Davidson, of Madison, from 
which I have made the above records, Indianapolis 
Med. Jour., Vol. xii, p. 265. 

WRIGHT, CHARLES E.— Indianapolis (1843-1893). 
S. T. 1893, 255. Dr. Wright had attained a well earned 
prominence in medicine when his life ended at the 
early age of 50. At the time of his death he was super- 
intendent of the Central Hospital for the Insane. He 
had filled a number of official positions in the city of 
Indianapolis. He contributed a number of valuable 
papers to the State Society: "Purulent Aural 
Catarrh," Trans. 1870, 119; "Paralysis of Accommoda- 
tion of the Eye," 1871, 93; "Diseases of the Eye and 
Ear," 1872, 67 ; and "Report on Diseases of the Eye and 
Ear," 1873, 22. Biography, I. M. J., Vol. xi, 279 (by 
Dr. W. B. Fletcher) and 281 (editorial). Stone (with 
portrait), 571. Excellent portrait, I. M. J., Vol. xi, 
facing p. 257. 

WRIGHT, CHARLES H.— North Madison (1839- 
1889). S. T. 1890, 154. He was a soldier of the Civil 
War. 

YOCKEY, DAVID H.— Richmond (1854-1904). S. 
T. 1905, 465. 

YOHN, EDWIN F.— Valparaiso (1864-1906). S. T. 
1906, 499. 

YOHN, WILLIAM A.— Valparaiso (1850-1892). He 
was born in Porter county, March 29, 1850, and died at 
Valparaiso, August 12, 1892. He filled the chair of 
Science in the Normal School, at Valparaiso, for seven- 
teen years. He was professor of Chemistry in the Col- 
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago, for five 
years. For several years he was secretary of the 
County Board of Health. Was a member of the Porter 



360 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

County Medical Society. — Dr. G. R. Douglas, Valpa- 
raiso. 

YOUNKMAN, A. B.— Bremen (1835-1899). S. T. 
1900, 344. 



CHAPTER XXII. 



HISTORICAL NOTES AND REFERENCES 

At the meeting of the State Medical Society in 1850, 
a committee consisting of Drs. Davidson, Sloan, Mears, 
Parry, Dunlap and Harrison, was appointed to report 
at next annual meeting, "on the use of anesthetic 
agents." They made a very excellent report at the 
session of 1851. Transactions 1851, p. 25. This was 
only five years after the discovery of anesthetics — four 
years after discovery of chloroform. 

They say: "We have heard of no case in Indiana, 
where death has been connected with the exhibition 
of chloroform, nor of any disagreeable consequences 
resulting from its use, other than of a few hours con- 
tinuance." Dr. W. H. Byford, of Evansville, favored 
its use in obstetrics. Attempts at local anesthesia 
failed. 

Dr. John Sloan, of New Albany, records the first 
ovariotomy in the Transactions, 1852, p. 55. The 
patient was aged 33. It was performed on Feb. 18, 
1852, and he was assisted by Drs. Leonard, Shields, 
Town, Graham, Bowman, and Rucker. Chloroform 
was administered by Dr. Bowman. Dr. Sloan made 
an incision in the linea alba five inches in length down 
to the peritoneum, and this was divided on a director. 
The tumor being composed of considerable solid sub- 
stance, Dr. Sloan extended his incision one and one- 
half inches above the umbilicus, and downward to the 
pubes. A double ligature was passed through the 
pedicle and tied on either side. On March 20th, the 
wound was entirely healed and she was walking about 
the home. 

Dr. J. H. Brower of Lawrenceburg, reports a case 
of ovarian disease complicated with ascites, which 
illustrates the natural history of ovarian tumors. 



362 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

Transactions, 1852, p. G5. An unmarried woman 
aged 4ii, during the summer of 1850, discovered a 
tumor in the abdomen. It grew rapidly until paracen- 
tesis was resorted to, and forty pounds of fluid 
removed. The tumor rapidly refilled, and was tapped 
several times. Death closed the scene in September, 
1851. A post mortem revealed an ovarian tumor with a 
small pedicle, showing an excellent case for an early 
operation, but the opportunity was not grasped. Such 
conditions could hardly exist at the present day. 

In the Transactions for 1853, pp. 24-57, Drs. W. H. 
Byford, M. H. Harding, and J. N. Graham contributed 
an interesting report on the "Practice of Medicine." 
The topography of several counties in eastern Indiana 
is given, and the reports on the early appearance of 
typhoid fever in this state as given by Drs. Woody, 
of Winchester, Harding of Lawrenceburg, Shields of 
New Albany, Kersey of Milton, Crooks and DeBruler 
of Rockport, are historical and instructive. In this 
same article, also, are included notes on epidemic ery- 
sipelas, dysentery, and various forms of malarial fever. 
At that early day the value of quinin was recognized 
and acknowledged. 

At the session of 1853, Dr. J. H. Brower, who had 
been appointed at the previous session, a committee 
on vital statistics made a report, Transactions, 1853, 
p. 74, in which he urged the adoption of legal enact- 
ments requiring the registration of marriages, births 
and deaths. It is to be regretted that these sug- 
gestions were allowed to slumber for more than one 
third of a century. 

Dr. M. J. Bray^ in the Transactions, 1853, p. 94, 
reports the successful removal of a fibrous tumor, from 
the face and neck of a male patient, which weighed 
twenty-one pounds. Most of the incision healed by 
the first intention, without a marked scar. Dr. Bray 
also contributes an article that might be read with 
profit at the present day, on "Symptoms, Causes, 
Pathology and Treatment of Scirrhus," Transactions, 
1854, pp. 25-42. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 303 

Dr. George Sutton, of Aurora, Transactions, 1853, 
pp. 109-175, contributes a valuable historical paper on 
"Asiatic Cholera," as it prevailed in Indiana during 
the years 1849-50-51-52. He details its progress from 
New Orleans, up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, 
until June, 1849, when it appeared in several Indiana 
towns situated on the Ohio river. He gives reports of 
its ravages in thirty-six counties of Indiana. The 
same author makes a valuable report on "Cholera." 
Transactions, 1867, p. 85, and Transactions, 1868, 
p. 51. 

Milk sickness was prevalent in Indiana half a cen- 
tury or more ago. Dr. George Sutton, of Aurora, 
made a preliminary report on the subject. Trans- 
actions, 1853, p. 176. Dr. James S. McClelland, of 
Jefferson, Clinton County, made a more extensive 
report on the disease "Trembles or Milk Sickness," in 
Transactions, 1854, p. 43. Still later, Dr. E. S. Elder, 
of Morristown, contributed an exhaustive paper on the 
subject, "Morbo Lacteo," Transactions, 1874, pp. 113- 
127. 

Dr. William W. Mayo, of Lafayette (father of the 
Mayo brothers, of Rochester, Minn. ) , contributes, 
Transaction, 1854, p. 68, an interesting "Report on 
the Pathological Indications of the Urine," which 
shows a good degree of skill in studying the urine 
at that early day. Dr. Mayo says, "The kidneys are 
not secreting organs." In a foot note the committee 
on publication dissent from this statement. 

Nursing sore mouth \ stomatitis materna) is an 
affection that was discussed half a century ago, more 
than at the present day. Dr. J. S. McClelland con- 
tributes an article on the subject in Transactions for 
1856, p. 48. It was thought to prevail as an epidemic 
in certain localities. The entire alimentary canal 
was involved to a less or greater extent, anemia was 
marked, digestion was disturbed, and death occurred 
in a majority of the cases. Nursing women, and 
women during the last months of pregnancy were 
subjects of the disease. 



364 MEDICAL BJ8T0RJ OF l\l>l I \ I. 

Dr. David Hutchinson, of Mooresville, in 1857, 
wrote the Fiske Fund Prize Essay on the subject, 
receiving one hundred dollars from the state of Rhode 
I -land for the same. It was published in the Ameri- 
can Journal of the Medical Sciences, vol. xxxiv, p. 369 
(October, 1857). 

Dr. Daniel Meeker, of Laporte, contributed three 
articles on the subject, "On Fractures and False 
Joints." Transactions, 1857, p. 29; 1858, p. 40, and 
1859, p. 34. These are valuable articles, and can be 
read with profit, although written half a century ago. 

Dr. Jacob E. Weist, of Richmond, contributes to the 
Transactions for 1867, p. 70, a carefully prepared 
paper on "Foreign Bodies in the Air Passages." Prof. 
S. D. Gross, in 1854, published a valuable paper based 
on a study of 153 cases. Dr. Weist followed Prof. 
Gross and collected 163 cases, and tabulated them as 
follows: Cases of spontaneous expulsion followed by 
recovery, 61; cases of death without operation, and 
without the expulsion of the foreign body, 20; cases 
of tracheotomy, followed by the expulsion of the 
foreign body and the recovery of the patient, 48 ; 
cases of tracheotomy followed by death, 19; cases of 
laryngotomy, followed by the expulsion of the foreign 
body and the recovery of the patient, 10; cases of 
laryngo-tracheotomy, followed by the expulsion of 
the foreign body and the recovery of the patient, 5. 
No more valuable paper on this subject has been pub- 
lished. 

Dr. Weist also contributed a Prize Essay on Cerebro- 
spinal Meningitis, Transactions, 1868, p. 123. 

One of the most remarkable operations in the annals 
of surgery, was performed by an Indiana surgeon, the 
late Dr. John S. Bobbs, of Indiana. It was the first 
operation for cholecystotomy, and was performed on 
June 15, 1867. The original paper was published in 
the Transactions for 1868, p. 68, and was entitled, 
"Case of Lithotomy oi the Gall-Bladder." The repro- 
duction of the report of this case, and numerous com- 
ments on it in recent medical literature renders It 
unnecessary to say more concerning it in this place. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 365 

The patient, Mrs. Z. Burnsworth, nee Miss Wiggins, 
at this date (1911), is still living, at the age 
of 74 years, at McCordsville, Indiana. She 

was the first person operated on for gall stones. The 
operation was done June 15, 1867, at Indianapolis, on 
the present site of the Commercial Club Building. 
Dr. John S. Bobbs was the operator, and was assisted 
by Drs. R. N. Todd, G. W. Mears, F. S. Newcomer, 
J. A. Comingor, J. P. Avery, Moore, and a medical 




MRS. Z. BURNSWORTH, FORMERLY MISS MARY 
E. WIGGINS 

student — John Cameron. See Indiana Medical Journal, 
July, 1905, for a full history of the case by Dr. A. 
W. Brayton. 

"Report on the Diseases of Indiana for the Year 
1872; With a Brief Outline of the Medical Topography 
and Climatology of Different Localities." (Reports 
from 42 counties.) Dr. George Sutton, Chairman, 
Transactions, 1873, p. 61. 

"History of the Medical Institutions of Indian- 
apolis." Editorial Indiana Journal of Medicine, vol. 
iv, pp. 313, 415, November. 1873. 



366 VEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIA* l. 

"Early State Medical Society — Fifth District Med- 
ical Society/ 5 Dr. W. B. Fletcher, Transactions, 1874, 
p. 26. 

"Cholera as Appearing in Indianapolis During the 
Summer of 1873." Dr. Thad M. Stevens, Indiana Jour- 
nal of Medicine, vol. v, p. 41. (June, 1874.) 

state Boards of Health." Dr. Thad M. Stevens, 
Transactions, 1875, p. 65. 

'•Report on Medical History of Indiana." Dr. Thad 
M. Stevens, Transactions, 1875, p. 79. 

'•Medical and Surgical History of Elkhart County." 
Dr. M. M. Latta, Transactions, 1875, p. 82. 

"Medical History of Grant County." Dr. William 
Lomax, Transactions, 1875, p. 88. 

"A Report on Trichinosis as Observed in Dearborn 
County, in 1874." Dr. George Sutton, Transactions, 
1875, p. 109. 

First case f of recognized "Podelcoma" (Madura 
Foot), occurring in the United States. Reported by 
Dr. G. W. H. Kemper, American Practitioner, vol. xiv, 
p. 129 (September, 1876). 

"Diseases Prevalent in the Early Settlement of 
Kokomo." Dr. Corydon Richmond, Transactions, 
1879, p. 19. 

"Statistics of Placenta Praevia." fhis report tabu- 
lates 240 cases, and is valuable for reference. Dr. 
Enoch W. King, Transactions, 1879, pp. 43-92, and 
1881, pp. 168-226. 

"Affections of the Gall-Bladder Tending to Result 
in Cutaneous Biliary Fistula." Shows how nature 
cures some cases by an opening through the abdominal 
walls. The publication of this article first brought 
the case of Dr. Bobbs into prominence. Dr. G. W. H. 
Kemper, Transactions, 1879, p. 120. In that paper, 
written one-third of a century ago, and while the advis- 
ability of such an operation was in doubt, Dr. Kemper 
said : 

"It is a pleasing duty to pay this small tribute to 
the memory of our departed fellow and brother. While 
several European and American surgeons are discussing 
the feasibility and priority of the operation of cholecys- 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 367 

totomy, with as yet no complete results, but only the 
promise of success for the future, they are astonished 
to learn that the operation was successfully performed 
by a surgeon of Indiana, twelve years ago. And so, 
when the operation of cholecystotoiny shall have been 
placed on a firm and scientific basis, and recognized 
and acknowledged by our profession — as it assuredly 
will — and its literature fully considered, the lustre of 
no name on its roll shall exceed that of Dr. Bobbs." 
Transactions, 1879, p. 136. 

"A Review of the Epidemics that Have Occurred in 
Southeastern Indiana During the Last Fifty Years, 
and the Observations on Change of Type in Our 
Endemic Malarial Diseases." Dr. George Sutton, 
Transactions, 1885, p. 104. 

"Report of the Literary Proceedings of the Banquet 
Given by the Marion County Medical Society to the 
Indiana State Medical Society at the New Denison 
Hotel, on the Evening of June 5, 1888." At this meet- 
ing, James Whitcomb Riley first read his poem, "Doc 
Sifers." Transactions, 1888, p. 160. 

"President's Address — Medical Retrospect of Fifty 
Years." Dr. W. H. Wishard, Transactions, 1889, p. 5. 

"One Thousand Cases of Labor and Their Lessons." 
Dr. G. W. H. Kemper, Medical Neics, vol. 59, p. 285 
(Sept. 12, 1891). 

"Memoirs of the Professional Lives of Drs. John 
S. Bobbs, Charles Parry, Talbott Bullard, and David 
Funkhouser." Dr. P. H. Jameson, Transactions, 1894, 
p. 212a; also Indiana Medical Journal, vol. xii, p. 426 
(June, 1894). 

"History of the Small-pox Epidemic in Muncie, 
Indiana, in 1893." Dr. Hugh A. Cowing, Twelfth 
Annual Report State Board of Health of Indiana, 
1893, p. 103. 

"The Use of Antitoxin in the Treatment of Diph- 
theria and Membranous Croup with a Collective Report 
of One Hundred and Thirty-Two Cases." Dr. E. L. 
Larkins, Transactions, 1896, p. 197. 

"An Epidemic of Diphtheria in the City of Colum- 
bus, Indiana. Personal Observations in One Hundred 



368 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA, 

and Ninety Cases. 1 ' Dr. George T. MacCoy, Trans- 
actions, 1897, p. 54; also Transactions, 1898, p. 350. 

"Summary of a Report of One Hundred Cases of 
Typhoid." Dr. I. N. Trent, Transactions, 1898, p. 72. 

"War Number" of the Indiana Medical Journal, vol. 
xvi (September, 1898). Especially valuable to those 
seeking knowledge of the several Indiana Regiments 
in the Spanish-American War. 

"Essays on Bacteriology and Its Relation to the 
Progress of Medicine." Dr. Theodore Potter, Medical 
and Surgical Monitor, 1898. 

"Mineral Waters of West Baden, Indiana, as a 
Therapeutic Agent." Dr. W. D. Pennington, Medical 
and Surgical Monitor, vol. i, p. 185 (October, 1898). 

"Camp Morton Hospital in the Civil War. Report 
by Drs. John M. Kitchen and P. H. Jameson to Gov. 
Morton, Jan. 6, 1863," Indiana Medical Journal, vol. 
xvii, p. 270 (January, 1899). 

"Indiana in Medicine," Dr. Alembert W. Brayton. 
A toast delivered at the Annual Banquet of the Allen 
County Medical Society at Fort Wayne, Dec. 26, 1899. 
Fort Wayne Medical Journal, Magazine Medical Jour- 
nal, February, 1900, p. 43. 

"Organization of the Indiana State Medical Society 
and Its Influence Upon the Profession." Dr. W. H. 
Wishard, Transactions, 1899, p. 20. 

"Report of Committee on State Medicine and 
Hygiene." Drs. J. N. Hurty, L. P. Drayer, and N. P. 
Cox, Transactions, 1899, p. 126. 

"Clinical Features of Malaria as Seen at Camp 
Mount Hospital." Dr. W. T. S. Dodds, Transactions, 
1899, p. 197. 

"Small-pox in Anderson — A Study of the Present 
Epidemic." Dr. Charles Trueblood, Transactions, 1900, 
p. 120. 

"Aneurysm of the Cervical Portion of the Vertebral 
Artery; Operation; Recovery." Twenty cases only 
are on record, with six recoveries. This adds one 
more to number and recoveries — six of the successful 
cases were performed by American surgeons. Dr. I. 
N. Trent, Transactions, 1901, p. 118. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIA VI. 3G9 

"A Consideration of the Present Laws for the Com- 
mitment of the Insane in Indiana." Dr. W. B. Fletcher, 
Transactions, 1901, p. 426. 

"An Index of the Transactions of the Indiana State 
Medical Society from 1849 to 1900 Inclusive." Dr. 
G. W. H. Kemper, Transactions, 1901, p. 505. 

"The First Cholecystotomy — Sketch of John S. 
Bobbs." Dr. M. B. Tinker, Johns Hopkins Hospital 
Bulletin, August, 1901. Also, Indiana Medical Jour- 
nal, vol. xx, p. 193. (November, 1902.) 

"Modern War Wounds." Dr. Frank W. Foxworthy, 
Transactions, 1902, p. 302. 

"The Mineral Waters of Indiana, with Indications 
for Their Application." Dr. Robert Hessler, Trans- 
actions, 1902, p. 365. 

"The Mineral Waters of Indiana." Dr. George 
Kahlo, Transactions, 1903, p. 237. 

"Institutional Practice." Dr. Harry Sharp, Trans- 
actions, 1905, p. 67. 

"The Mineral Waters of Orange County." Dr. John 
L. Howard, Transactions, 1905, p. 413. 

"Blastomycosis and its Congeners — Report of Eight 
Cases Observed in Indiana." Dr. A. W. Brayton. 
Transactions, 1907, p. 35. 

"The Progress of Surgery in the United States." 
Dr. John H. Oliver, Indiana Medical Journal, vol. xxv, 
p. 383 (April, 1907). 

"A Report of One Thousand Obstetrical Cases With- 
out a Maternal Death." Dr. Samuel Kennedy, Shelby - 
ville. The Journal of the Indiana State Medical 
Association, vol. iii, p. 200. 

"Historical Sketch of Medicine and Medical Men in 
the Early Days of Johnson County, Indiana." Dr. R. 
W. Terhune. of Whiteland. Pamphlet. Indiana State 
Library, Indianapolis. 

Dunn's "History of Greater Indianapolis," Chapter 
41, and Sulgrove's "History of Indianapolis and 
Marion County," Chapter 12, will give considerable 
information concerning the physicians of Marion 
County. 



370 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 

First injection of "600" in Indiana given by Drs. 
Wynn, Brayton, Graham, Charlton, Erdman and Free- 
land, at Indianapolis City Hospital, November 10, 
1910. Patient young woman, five months advanced in 
pregnancy. 

"A Plea for the Cesarean Operation. Based on a 
Report of Fifty-Three Cases Performed in Indiana." 
Paper read by Dr. G. W. H. Kemper, before the 
Indiana State Medical Association, 1910. First 
recorded operation by Dr. J. W. Conway, January 29, 
1803. Dr. Moses Baker was the first operator to save 
both mother and child, Nov. 3, 1880. Dr. W. H. Myers 
was the first to do the Porro operation. Dr. Joseph 
Eastman first operated in an extra-uterine pregnancy 
and saved mother and child, July 10, 1888. The 
■Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association, 
vol. iv. p. 102. The following is an analysis of the 
fifty-three cases: 

Cases 

Mother and child saved 27 

Mother alone saved 11 

Total number of mothers saved 38 

Mother and child lost 7 

Mother alone lost 8 

Total number of mothers lost 15 

Child saved with mother 27 

Child alone saved 8 

Total number of children saved 35 

Child lost with mother 7 

Child alone lost 11 

Total number of children lost 18 

Total number of mothers and children saved 73 

Total number of mothers and children lost 33 

''Medical History of Delaware County." Names of 
430 physicians. History of Delaware County, Indiana. 
Kemper. Chapter xxii, vol. i, p. 288. 

"Biography of Eminent American. Physicians and 
Surgeons." Illustrated. R. French Stone, M.D., 
Indianapolis, 1894. This contains biographies of a 
large number of Indiana Physicians. 

The State Transactions, 1849 to 1907 inclusive, con- 
tain one thousand one hundred and thirty-eight (1138) 
articles. 



MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA.' 371 

'"Malaria in Indiana." Dr. Ada E. Schweitzer. This 
article is historical and valuable for reference. The 
■Journal of the Indiana Stale Medical Association, vol. 
iv. p. 70 (February. 1011). 

A complete file of the Transactions of the Indiana 
State Medical Society, 1849 to 1907, may be found in 
the Indianapolis city library. 



INDEX 



SUBJECTS 

Board of health, history of 172 

Bobbs free dispensary 71 

County History : 

Allen 24 

Bartholomew 100 

Clay 124 

Delaware 89 

Fayette 113 

Fountain 133 

Franklin 126 

Gibson 225 

Grant 119 

Hancock 95 

Jackson 138, 227 

Kosciusko 130 

Madison 207 

Noble 97 

Ripley 129 

Rush 75 

Steuben 136 

White 131 

Eastern Indiana, early history of 33 

Epidemics in Indiana " 160 

Historical notes and references 361 

Indianapolis history : 

City hospital 71 

Early medical notes 50, 73 

Early medical men 31 

Legal enactments 165 

Madison (city) reminiscences of 42 

Medical colleges : 

Central 69 

Laporte 52 

Northwestern Territory, medicine in 18 

Physicians, deceased, alphabetical list of 230 

State medical convention of 1849 182 

Corrected list of members of 182 

State Medical Society and Association : 

Changes in 174 

Formation and growth of 142 

List of members from 1849 to 1860 151 

List of presidents 176 

List of vice-presidents 178 

Sessions, place of meeting and date 173 

Terre Haute, early medical historv of 56 

Vincennes, early medical history of 4, 63 

War History : 

Surgeons in Mexican War 186 

Surgeons in Civil War 187 

Surgeons in Spanish-American War 204 

Hospital Stewards in Spanish-American War 205 



37 1 



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FOREWORD AND 

PAGE 

Bock. Joseph R xiii 

Bobbs, John S. . v i i . xviii, xix 

Brayton, Alembert W 

xi, xviii, xx 

Burnsworth. Mrs. Z xviii 

Field. Nathaniel vii 

Hibberd, James F...vii, xvii 

Kemper. G. W. H 

ix. xi. xii. xiii, xiv. xv, xvi, 
xvii. xviii. xix, xx, xxi 



[NTRODUCTION 

PAGE 

Kimberlin, Albert C xviii 

Blears, (Jeer.se W vii 

Moodey, John W xv 

l'arvin. Theophilus vii 

Pfaff, Orange G xviii 

Scholl. Walker xviii 

Simpson, Sir Alex. R. . . .xviii 

Smith. Hubbard M xiii 

Tinker. Martin B xix 

YVishard, William II vii 



NAMES 

(Later information has enabled me in many instances to 
correct errors in names, also to supply the first, or Christian 
name in some instances when omitted in the text. Where 
differences are observed between the text and the index, the 
data of the latter are to be preferred.) 



PAGE 

Abbott,, Charles H 188 

Abell, L. F 98 

Aborn, Orin 188, 233 

Adair, T. E 98 

Adams, David 188 

Adams, James M 233 

Adams, James Mc 233 

Adams. James R. ...188, 233 

Adams, Marcellus M.188, 234 

Adkins, Jehu 135 

Adylotte, William R 234 

Aichele, Emil 188 

Aikman, Edgar A 234 

Albertson, Edmund .... 151 

Alexander, John H 188 

Alexander. Stephen J... 234 

Alexander. Wilbur 234 

Alison. (Vincennes) .... 7 

Allen. J. Adams .14. 99 

Allen. Joseph. .146. 151. 182 

Allen. Joseph S 3 88 

Allen. Seth 234 

Allen. William S 188 

Amick. Christopher C. . . 234 

Anderson. (Monticello) .. 131 

Anderson. James 129 

Anderson. Joseph V 188 

Anderson. Oliver F 234 

Anderson. William 129 

Andrew. Jacob P 52 

Andrew. William F 234 

Andrews. Daniel H 234 

Andrews. William J 93 

Angell. Charles 151 

Anthonv. Emanuel 234 

Anthonv, Samuel P 234 



PAGE 

Applegate, Charles H. . . 188 

Archer, Samuel M 188 

Arderv, Joseph C 

147, 151, 182, 234 

Ardery, Oscar 212 

Armington. John L 

147. 151, 182 

Armington, William . . . 234 

Armitage. David R..92, 234 

Armstrong, J. B 22 

Armstrong. James B. . . . 188 

Armstrong, Lewis P.... 234 

Armstrong, Weslev 235 

Armstrong. William G.. 235 

Arnold, John 117, 235 

Arnold. Martin B 188 

Arthur. Christopher C. . 

188. 235 

Arwine. John S 235 

Aspinwall. (Terre Haute) 62 

Athon, Samuel S 

146. 151, 182, 186, 187, 

23.", 

Atkins. Joseph 236 

Austin. ( Hecla) 54 

Austin. Charles B 236 

Austin. Stephen S 236 

Austin. Thomas D 188 

Austin. Thomas K..151. 179 

Averdick, Henry G..188, 236 

Avery, Increase J 188 

Avery, John P 188, 365 

Ayres, Henrv P 

" 24. 151. 176, 180. 236 

Ayres. Stephen D...122. 236 



INDEX. 



375 



PAGE 

Babbit, Edward D 188 

Bacon, E. A 117 

Bain, W. C. A.. 139, 140, 228 

Bair, W. B 210, 212 

Baker, A. ii 69 

Baker, Braxton 188 

Baker, Joseph H 236 

Baker, Moses.. . .54, 23<>. 370 

Baker, Philip S 236 

Baker, Thomas II. B. . . . 237 

Balingall, George H.209, 237 

Ball. Edward V 56, 58 

Ball. William H 131 

Ballard, Chester G 

146, 151, 182, 237 

Ballard, Micajah 188 

Ballard, Nathan H 237 

Ballard, S. H 237 

Ballenger, L. P 212 

Ballon. A. B 237 

Banks, (Ft Wayne) 27 

Banks, Ephraim N 188 

Barbour, Samuel 107 

Barcus, Paul J 204 

Bare, Addison W. . . . 188, 202 

Bare, John R 189 

Barker, Andrew J 237 

Barker, William L 189 

Barnes, Charles 116 

Barnes, William C 237 

Barnett, Charles E 204 

Barnett,- Walter W 204 

Barrett, James 210 

Barrett, John 210 

Barritt. J. J 151 

Barry, (Madison Co.) . . . 210 

Barry, G. G 19 

Bartholomew, Bradley . . 

152, 237 

Barton. Gaylord G...19, 237 

Barton. Philip H 204 

Barton, Philip 

19, 20, 63, 64, 65 

Bassett. John Q 189 

Bates. Aaron J 237 

Bates. Philip 48 

Batman, (Jackson Co.).. 227 

Batman. William F 180 

Battv, B. J 19 

Baty. John 8 

Bauer, Modestus 237 

Baxter, Joseph A 105 

Bayse. Thomas S 189 

Beachley, Nathaniel J.. 189 
Beard, Ferdinand W. . . . 

22, 180, 202, 237 

Beasley. George F. .177, 204 

Beatty, J. L. . . . 214 

Beck, Elias W. H 

152, 189. 238 

Beck. G. G 152 

Beck. J. R 232 



PAGE 

Beck, Jobn 212 

Beck, John C 152 

Beck, Joseph R 238 

Beck, Thomas S 212 

Beck, William H 189 

Becker, Rannenis 7 

Beckes, Lyman M 239 

Beckwith, Lod W 189 

Beebe, James 189 

Beecher, Lewis 26 

Beeks, Green C 189 

Beer, Henry M 239 

Beeson, William H 22 

Beever, John C 22 

Bell, (Robroy) 135 

Bell, ( Shelby ville) 43 

Bell, Guido 288 

Bell, Nathaniel G 189 

Bell, William H 177 

Belles, J. T 152 

Bence, Robert F 189 

Benezet, (Allen Co.) .... 24 

Bennett, Basil B 189 

Bennett, J. W 152 

Benson, Julius L 189 

Berry, George 126, 239 

Berryman, James A. 189, 239 

Berteling, John B...177, 180 

Bever, John C 239 

Beverly, John E 239 

Bigelow, James K 

180, 189. 239 

Bigney, Peter M 189 

Black. Norman W. . .92, 239 

Blackstone. John K. . . . 189 

Blackwell, John A 189 

Blair, Franklin 240 

Blair, William W...189, 225 

Bland, (Jackson Co.) . . . 140 

Blaser, Felix F 189 

Blount, Cyrus N 240 

Blount, Rufus F 189 

Blunt, Marcus S....152, 240 

Boaz. Jacob 140 

Bobbs, John S 

69, 70. 71, 72. 73. 96. 97, 

144, 145, 146. 152. 176, 

182, 203, 240. 310, 364, 
365. 366. 367, 369 

Bodman. Elam 189 

Bogart, Henry J ISO 

Boggs, L. B 130 

Bogle, Christopher F . . . 1 89 

Bond. Charles S 177. 180 

Bond, Richard C 189, 242 

Ronnels, L. J 92 

Boor. Walter A 242 

Boor. William F 189. 242 

Bordwell. Lewis 208 

Bosworth. Richard 180 

Bounell, Mathew H . . . . 

189. 202. 242 



376 



INDEX. 



PAGE 

Bowen, Jesse 134 

Bowers, Andrew .1 242 

Bowlby, Joseph 242 

Bowman, Charles 

152, 179, 361 

Bowman, D 130 

Boyd, John M..146, 152, 182 

Bovd, Samuel S 

177, 189, 244 

Boynton, A. G 152 

Boynton, C. L 152 

Boynton, Charles S 189 

Boyse, Thomas F 189 

Bracken, William ..227, 244 

Brackett, Charles 189 

Bradburn, John 113 

Bradbury, Allison B 244 

Braden, William 85 

Brady, C. C 246 

Brand, (Rockford) 139 

Brandon, Joseph Fran- 
cis 212. 246 

Brandt. (Rockford) 227 

Bray, Ebenezer 152 

Bray. Madison J 

152, 176, 189, 246, 362 
Brayton, Alembert W. . . 

2, 3, 177, 365, 368, 369, 

370 

Brazelton, John B 189 

Brenton, William H 189 

Bridwell, Lafayette .... 246 

Briley, Absalom 124 

Brittain, Stephen H 246 

Brooks, (Terre Haute) . . 56 

Brooks, Mordecai 189 

Brooks, William H 246 

Brothers, Guy M 247 

Brower, Jeremiah H. . . . 

147, 152, 176, 182, 246, 

361, 362 

Brown, (Bethel) 96 

Brown, Clay. . 152, 189, 246 

Brown, Daniel E 53 

Brown, Jacob R 189 

Brown, Jesse R 189 

Brown, Joseph 19 

Brown, Ryland T 

41, 54, 70, 84, 116, 152 

Brown, S. Clay 189 

Brown, Samuel M. . .152, 247 

Brown, Wilkins B 189 

Browne, J 8 

Browne, John T 190 

Bruce. George W 190 

Brucker. Magnus 190 

Brunt, Samuel 213 

Brunt, Samuel F 247 

Brusie, Luther 190 

Brvan. George W 1^0 

Bryan. T. N 247 

Bryant, (Fountain Co.). 137 



PAGE 

Bryson, Frank T 190 

Buchman, Henry 120 

Buck, 152 

Buck, Robert II 

152. 190, 202 

B u c k - o n-ga-helas, (In- 
dian) 28 

Buehler, Eugene 204 

Bullard, Talbott 

33, 73, 96, 145, 146 152, 
164, 176, 178, 182, 247, 
367 

Bullard W. R 152 

Bulson, Albert E., Jr. . . 175 

Bunnel, W. W 39 

Bunton, Edwin A 247 

Burk, George L 247 

Burke, George W 248 

Burket, Calvin W T 180 

Burlingame, E. G 248 

Burlington, James C. . . 137 

Burns, Jesse 152 

Burnsworth, Mrs. Z . . . . 365 

Burr, Chancey S 213 

Burr, Joseph S 113, 115 

Burt, Dickinson 

89, 93, 208, 209 

Burt, James Clark 248 

Burton, George W 22, 248 

Burton, William A 190 

Bush, J. E 49, 128 

Bush, 152 

Bushnell, Samuel B 190 

Butler, A. B 152 

Butterfield, S. H 152 

B u 1 1 e r w orth, (Misha- 

waka) 54 

Butterworth, William W. 190 

Buzett, Edward F 190 

Byers, Alexander R.190, 248 

Byers, William J 

146, 152, 182 

Byf ord. William H 

. .152, 178, 248, 361, 362 
Byrn, Spencer 190 

Cadwallader, Joseph . . . 120 

Cady, William F 249 

Cain, Cornelius 128 

Calderwood. James C... 190 

Calloway, Beniah T 213 

Cameron, John '. 365 

Campbell, John C. L 190 

Campfield, John A 190 

Canady, W. H 249 

Canby, (Madison) 44 

Cannon. George H 249 

Carey, Isaac 249 

Carlev, Rush 190 

Carlstadt, F. A 152 

Carmean. (Madison Co.). 209 

Carr, George W.98, 190, 249 



INDEX. 



377 





PAGE 






PAGE 


ran-. Thomas 


210 


Clippinger, George W . . . 


190 


Carson, William F 


24!) 


' Clowes, David A. . . 




190 


Carter, D. M 


213 


Cochran, James . . . 




252 


Carter, F. M 


152 


Coe, Henry 




152 


Cartwright, Samuel A.. 


16 


Coe, Isaac. . .31, 43 


, 49, 


252 


Carver. L. E 


132 


Coe, Z. B 




152 


Casey, (Gibson Co.) 
Casselberry, Isaac 


226 










129, 152. 


179, 


253 


152, 177, 170, 190, 


249, 


Cole, Henry C 




253 


250 




Cole, William C . . . . 






Casterline, Amos B 


190 


133, 


190, 


253 


Casterline, Ziba 


190 


Coleman, Asa 




190 


Catlin, H. W 


152 


Coleman, Horace . . . 


.153. 


190 


Chamberlain, James M. . 


190 


Colescott, Thomas W. . . 


126 


Chamberlain, James N. . 


250 


Collett, Joseph T. . 




190 


Chamberlain, N. A 


190 


Collier, A. G 




153 


Chamberlain, Samuel B. . 


250 


Collings, Isaac S. . 


.153, 


190 


Chambers, John 


250 


Collins, Erasmus B. 




190 


Champ, George W 


190 


Collins, George M . . 


.190, 


253 


Chandler, Joseph A. 130, 


190 


Collins, William A . 


.191, 


253 


Channing, William S... 




Collins, William F. . 




153 


213, 


250 


Collum, William F. 






Chapman, A 


152 


146, 153, 


182, 


254 


Chapman, Amos H. .117, 


118 


Colvert, W 7 illiam . . 






Chapman, Hon. John B. 




133, 


136, 


254 




130 
251 
250 


Combs, Charles N . . 

Comingor, John A.. 

70, 72, 73, 153, 


iii," 


332 


Charles, Etta 




Charles, Henrv 


254, 


Charlton, Fred R. . .205, 


370 


365 






Charlton, Robert 


190 


Commons, William 




204 


Charlton, Samuel H. . . . 




Compton, John W. . 




254 


. . .139, 177, 180, 190, 


251 


Comstock, George C 




107 


Chenoweth, John T 


251 • 


Confer, James M. . . 




191 


Chenoweth, Nelson T. . . 


251 


Conn, Isaac T 




191 


Chenowith. George F. . . . 


251 


Conn, Richard B. . . 






Chestnut, Thomas 


152 


129, 147, 


153, 


182 


Chittenden, George F. . . 


190 


Connett, Mahlon C. 




191 


Chittiek. Charles 


181 


Connor, Leartus . . 




. 99 


Chitwood, George R . . . . 




Constant, John H. . 




202 


117, 118, 152, 


251 


Conway, J. W 




370 


Chitwood, Joshua 




Conyngton, John . . 




153 


. ..118, 129, 190, 202, 


251 


Cook, Daniel 




213 


Churchill, John M 


251 


Cook, George J 




177 


Chutes, George (Shoots) 




Cook, John H 


.208, 


213 


140, 


228 


Cook, John W 




167 


Clapp, Asahel 




Cook, Robert H 




191 


48. 49, 145, 146, 152, 


176, 


Cook, Thomas E 




215 


178, 182, 341 




Cook, Ward 






Clapp. William A 


167, 168, 


208, 


215 


. ..146, 152, 182. 190, 


252 


Cool, Jonathan ... 




32 


Clark, (Madison Co.) . . . 


210 


Cooper, Joel S 




191 


Clark, Chester 


137 


Cooper, William . . . 






Clark. Dougan 70, 


252 


146, 153, 


182, 


254 


Clark, Edmond 


252 


Cooper, W. B 




216 


Clark, Havman W 


116 


Corev, Lavanner . . 




256 


Clark, J. C 


252 


Corlew, Rufus M. . . 




255 


Clark, Lemon W 


252 


Cornelius, W. W. . . 




216 


Clark. Othniel L 152, 


179 


Cornett. William T. 


S.. . 




Clark. William 62, 


63 


42. 129. 145, 147, 


153, 


176, 


Clark, William R. S 


°52 


182, 255 






Cleaver. John 


128 


Coster. William . . 




129 


Clifford, (Rush Co.) 


85 


Corvell, Samuel .... 




228 



378 



INDEX. 



Courtney, James T 

Cowan. John A 

Cowgill, Tarvin W 

147, 149, 153, 

Cowing, Hugh A 

Cox. (Fountain Co.) 

Cox. Henry 

Cox. Jesse* T 

Cox, N. P 

Craig, Isaac N 

Craig, John M 

C raig, William 

Cranipton, Jesse Fugh.. 

Cranfield, M. L 

Crapo, John R 

Cravens, James W 

Cravens. Samuel C 

Crawford. John 

Cresap, William S 

Crews. (Centerville) .38, 

Crippen. E. H 153, 

Crippen. James ....139, 

Crist, Daniel O 

Crooks. (Rockport) 
Crookshank. or Cruik- 

shank. Erasmus D. . . . 

77, 

Crosby, The, H 

Crosby, Thomas II 

Cross. Joseph B 

Crouse, D. H 

Crouse, Henry M 

Crouse. Jerome H 

Crow (Albion T.?) (Al- 
len Co.) 

Crowder, Robert H 

Crum, P. W 

Crunkleton. Fred J 

Culbertson, David P. . . . 
Culbertson, Joseph R . . . 
Culbertson, Robert H. . . 

191, 

Cullen, John C 

Cummings, (Houston) .. 
Cummings, Hiram A.... 
Cummins. Benjamin F.. 

Cure, Hiram W 

Curl. William 

Curran. Robert 

146, 148, 153, 178. 

257 

Curry. John 

Curryer. William T 

Curtis, (Allen Co.) 

Curtis, David G 

Curtis. George L 

Cushman, Arbaees 

Cushman, Benjamin 
Cushman. Daniel W. . . . 
Cyrus, W. H. (Cyms).. . 

153. 



PAGE 

256 

256 

182 
367 
135 
179 

191 
368 
191 
191 

92 
216 
211 
256 
191 
2r,(i 
134 
191 

39 
25 (i 
227 
256 
362 



128 
256 
191 
256 
153 
191 
256 



24 
191 

98 
257 
191 
191 

257 
191 
140 
257 
257 
257 
226 

182. 

191 

258 

24 

204 

258 

258 

25 



191 



I'AGK 

Dailey, J 27 

Uailey, James J 258 

Dalgleish, Henry T 258 

Daly, George P 191 

Dancer, John 98, 258 

Daniels, (Jackson Co.).. 140 
Daniels. Ebenezer ...56, 57 

Daniels. Edward 117 

Darnell, Milton B 191 

Darrach, George M..153, 25s 
Daugherty. Charles A... 177 
Daughters, Andrew P. . . 191 
Davenport, Henderson D., 

259 

Davenport, Theodore . . . 259 
Davidson, (Vincennes) . . 8 
Davidson, Benjamin F., 

153, 191 

Davidson, Greenleaf N . . 259 

Davidson, H 19 

Davidson. William 

147, 153, 178, 182, 191, 

361 
Davidson, William R.. . . 

181, 359 

Davis, (Madison Co.) . . . 209 

Davis, Eugene F 259 

Davis, John 210 

Davis. J. B 153 

Davis, John B 127, 191 

Davis, John W. . .19, 60, 191 

Davis, Joseph 140 

Davis, Joseph H 191 

Davis. Nathan S 99 

Davis. Robert P.... 191. 259 

Davis, S 153 

Davis, Samuel 191, 259 

Davis, Solomon 191 

Davis. Tiffin 105,106 

Davis. William H 153 

Davis, William S 205 

Davisson. Henrv C 191 

Day. Samuel D 153. 259 

Dayhuff. A. F 259 

De Bruler, James P 

19, 153. 259, 362 

De Bruler, James P 260 

De Bruler. Oliver E 261 

Decker, Hiram 

7. 12, 15. 19. 20. 65 

Dehority. J. M 216 

Demiug, Elizur H 

53. 54. 55, 69. 153, 176, 

261 

Dennv. De Witt C 97, 98 

D(nnv. J. X 98 

Depew, Richard J 261 

Dr wey, Annin W 191 

DeVore, Henry V 262 

Dicken, James L 

153, 191, 262 

Dickey, Andrew S 181 



INDEX. 



379 



PAGE 

Dill, Nathaniel C 262 

Dillon. A. C 153 

Dills, Thomas J 262 

Dinwiddie, Daniel 19 

Dinwiddle, W 18, 19 

Dixon, William H 191 

Doan, N. W 262 

Doane. George M 191 

Dodd, James 191 

Dodds, W. T. S 368 

Dodge, Henry C 191 

Dodson, Jonas II 192 

Dolph, Cassius M 262 

Dome, David C 192 

Donaldson, Ebenezer F. . 262 

Doneghy, John T 153 

Dooley, Aldine J 262 

Douglas, G. R 360 

Douglas, Thomas .. .210. 216 
Douglass, Hon. Fredk. . . 

208, 292 

Douglass, Robert ...210, 216 

Dorsey, (Centerville) . . H<S 

Dorsey, N. J 153 

Dowling, Henry M 

146, 153, 163, 178, 182. 

262 

Downey, Charles G 69 

Downey, William A 192 

Drayer, Lewis P 368 

Draver. Peter 262 

Dry'den, Thomas F..153. 262 

Dudley. (Dudley town) . 138 

Duffield, James T 192 

Duffv. John S 192 

Du Kate. John B 262 

Du Kate, John S 22, 192 

Dunham. David 209. 216 

Dunham, Valentine. .216. 262 

Dunlap, John M 263 

Dunlap, Livingston .... 

31, 32. 43, 49. 69. 71, 73. 

145, 146, 153, 176, 178. 

182, 263. 361 

Dunn. John G 186 

Dunn, J 153 

Dunn, Williamson D. . . . 192 

Dunn, Williamson P.... 192 

Dunnell, D 153 

Dunning. Lehman H. . . . 263 

Durand, Amos M 192 

Dutton. Daniel B 192 

Duzan. George N 264 

Dwiggins, Moses F 264 

Earlev. E. P 342 

Earp. Samuel E 2, 3, 267 

Easterling. Amos 192 

Eastman, Joseph 

201, 264. 266. 370 

Ebersole. Jacob 192 

Ebert, William H 216 



PAGE 

Edgerle, George W., Jr. 

15:;. lid- 
Edwins, Stanley W 192 

Egbert, George 267 

Eichelberger. William C. 

267 

Elbert, Samuel A 2(!7 

Elder, B. F 153 

Elder, Elijah S 

177. 267, 363 

Elder, Samuel F 153 

Eldridge, Albert 

147. 153, 182 

Elliott, A 10 

Elliott. Cyrenus 1 54 

Elliott. James H 154 

Elliott, James S 192 

Elliott, Thomas B 154 

Elliott. W. M 154 

Ellis, C. R 153 

Ellis, Charles S 267 

Ellis, E. W. II 153 

Ellis, Hamilton E. . .192, 267 

Ellis, John 153 

Ellis. Joseph 153 

El rod, Moses N 268 

Elston, William T 192 

English, Calvin H 205 

Eno, Newton G 192 

Erdman, Bernard 370 

Erichson, G 99 

Espey, James G 205 

Espey, James 268 

Estabrook, S. H 97 

Evans. David S 192 

Evans, John 54. 73, 268 

Everts, C. C 154 

Everts. Orpheus. 54. 192, 268 

Everts, S 48, 49 

Everett, (Union Co.) . . . 84 

Ewing. Frank 228 

Fairfield. William J 216 

Fairhurst. O'Connel .... 22 

Fairhurst. William 19 

Fanning. Frederick W. . . 268 

Fansler. D. N 98 

Farquhar, Allen H 268 

Farquhar. Uriah 

145. 146. 154. 178, 182. 

268 

Farrell. A 154 

Featherston. John R. . . . 269 
Fenlev. (Finlev) Isaac. 

. . .108. 147. 154. 182, 186 

Ferguson. David 269 

Ferguson. Frank C 2 

Ferguson. William T. . . . 192 

Ferree, Frank M 269 

Ferree. Shadrach L 269 

Ferris. (Lawrenceburs) 

. 44 



380 



INDEX 



TACK 

Ferris, Samuel 2i><) 

Field. David 1 254 

Field. Nathaniel 

154. ITU. 192, 269 

Fields. (Tampico) 140 

Finch. (Centerville)..38, 39 

Finley, George W 124 

Fishback, Charles 

154, 179, 209, 270 

Fisher, Elias 192 

Fisher, II. G 217 

Fisher, Samuel 154 

Fisher, Samuel 270 

Fitch. Graham N 270 

Fitzgerald, David A 192 

Fitzgerald, Jenkins .... 192 

Flack, William C 192 

Fletcher William B . . . . 

48. 70, 72, 271, 326, 366, 

369 
Florer, Thomas W 

145, 154, 178, 179, 182, 

192, 271, 272 
Ford, James .. .154, 192. 272 

Ford. James H 177 

Ford, John H 192 

Ford, John Louis... 139, 228 

Ford. Joseph H 273 

Forkner, Thomas B.... 217 

Forstmeyer, Emil 192 

Fosdick, Albert C 192 

Fosdick, William 186 

Foster. C. A 154 

Foster, John 121, 122 

Foster, William C, Sr.. 

147, 182 

Foster, William C., Jr.. 

154, 192, 204 

Fouts, William D 192 

Fowler, J 49 

Foxworthy, Frank W. . . 

205, 369 

Frame, William B 

75, 82, 83, 84, 85 

France, John W 273 

France, Samuel 192 

Francis, James K 

129. 147, 154, 182 

Franks. W. H 98 

Free. Cyrenius 217 

Freeland. John L 370 

Freeland, John T 22 

Freeman, Edward D.... 181 
Freeman, Samuel A 

154. 192 

Freeman. William ..192, 273 

French, John S 192 

French, William H 154 

Frink, Charles S 

99. 203, 273 

Fritts. Thomas J 192 

Fritz. Perrv L 217 



PAGE 
9, 182," 192, 



Fry. Thomas W 

146, 154, 1 

273 

Fullerton, Charles ...49, 
Fullerton, George W . . . . 
Fulenwider, Samuel .... 
Funkhouser, David .... 

73, 146, 154, 182. 273. 
Fussell, Batholomew . . . 
Fussell, Edwin B. . .208, 

Gaddy, Nelson D 

Galbreath, Thomas S . . . 
Gale, Temple E 

41, 113, 115, 

Gall. Alois D 

73, 146, 154, 182. 193, 
Garber, Jonathan B . . . . 

Garey, Dumont 

Garrell. C. V 

Garretson, J. M 

Garrett, Anthony 

Garrison, Herod D 

Garrison, James L. F . . . 
Garstang, Reginald W . . 

Garver, George W 

Garver, Henry F 

Garver, James A 

Garver, John James .... 
Gaston, John M 

73, 146. 154, 182 

Gatch, James D 

177, 180, 193, 

Gause, Thomas 

Geis. John F 

Gentry. Zachariah B.. . . 
Gerrard, Jerome B..154, 
Gerrish, James W. F. . . . 

193, 

Gerrish, Millard F 

Gibson, F. W 140, 

Gifford, Thomas 127, 

Gifford, William H 

Gilbert, Henry 

Gilbert, J. L 97, 

Gilbert, William H 

Gilfillan, John 

Gillespie, (Ripley Co.) . . 

Gillespie. William 

Gillum, James 

Gillum, R. T 

Gilmore, Alexander W . . 

Girdner, J. G 

Glasgo. Thomas A 

Glick, Elias B 

Godwin. George W..209, 
Goldsberry. John A. 193, 

Good. Alonzo H 

Goodell. William 

Goodwin, Grant 

Goodwin. John R...127, 
Gordon, George W 



226 
193 
137 

367 

217 
217 

273 

274 

128 

274 
181 
274 
211 
217 
193 
193 
193 
205 
119 
193 
193 
274 

274 

274 

275 
275 
193 
193 

276 
205 
228 
276 
125 
130 

98 
180 
125 

44 
193 
193 
118 
193 
154 
276 
193 
217 
276 
276 
210 
131 
193 
193 



INDEX. 



381 



Gordon, Jonathan W. . . . 

130, 147, 154, 182 

Gorrell, Joseph R 193 

Goss, James M 193, 276 

Gould, Vernon 193 

Graff, George B 154, 226 

Graham, Alois B 370 

Graham, Andrew E 276 

Graham, J. N . . 154, 361, 362 

Graham, William B 193 

Gramm, William 154 

Grant, George H....177, 276 

Gravis, Charles M 276 

Gray, Arthur W... 193 

Gray, John M 193, 277 

Gray, Samuel C 130, 277 

Graydon, R. G 73, 154 

Grayston, Fredk. S. C. . . 277 

Green, Charles H 277 

Green, George R 167, 181 

Green, Hiram S 193 

Green, J. H 277 

Green, James H 139 

Green, James H 227 

Green, James W 277 

Green, John N 193 

Green, Jonathan N. .154, 179 

Green, Lot 277 

Green, W. F 154 

Greenwood, (Robroy)... 135 

Gregg, Henry 277 

Gregg, James S 

177, 180, 193, 277 

Gregg, Vincent H 

118, 193, 278 

Grichfield, A. B 130 

Griffis, Robert 278 

Griffith, (Richmond) ... 37 

Griffith, John C 193 

Grimes, Samuel 154, 178 

Grinwell, John L 193 

Grove, Jasper M 193 

Grover, Henry C 193 

Guffin, John 193 

Guyer, O. K 278 

Guysinger, John S 217 

Hadley, Edwin 278 

Hadley, Evan 278 

Hagen, (Rockford) 227 

Haggerty, Robert J 278 

Haines, Abram B 

154, 193, 278 

Hale, David M 63, 64 

Hall, Clarissa Johnson. . 292 

Hall, Daniel D 

117. 118, 154, 193, 202 

Hall, Homer J 181 

Hall, Wesley C 278 

Hallanan, Joseph 278 

Ham, Levi J 193. 278 

Hamen, (Monticello) . . . 131 



PAGE 

Hamil, Robert C 

147, 154, 182 

Hamilton, (Prairieton). . 59 

Hamilton, Asa A 120 

Hamilton, John 134 

Hamilton, S. M 119 

Hammond, Francis J. . . 279 

Hamon, (Burkville) .... 84 

Hard, C 54 

Hard, Nichols 53, 54 

Harding, Myron H., Sr. . 

147, 154, 162, 176, 179, 

182, 279, 362 
Harding, Myron H., Jr.. 

279 

Hardman, Jacob 279 

Hargrove, William S... 279 

Harriman, Leonard .... 211 
Harriman, Simeon B. . . . 

193, 211 

Harrington, S. H 154 

Harris, Rice C 279 

Harris, William B 22, 193 

Harris, William C 280 

Harrison, James S 

69, 73, 146, 154, 182, 361 

Harrison, Robert G 193 

Harrison, Thomas H. . . . 

194, 202 

Harrod, Stanford H 280 

Hartclay, (Greensburg) . 44 

Hartloff, Richard 280 

Harvey, Reuben 211 

Harvev, Thomas B 

70. 72, 73, 154, 177, 180, 
280 

Harvey. William F. . 154, 281 

Hasty, George 281 

Hatchitt, James G 155 

Hatfield, (Jackson Co.). 140 

Haughton, A. J 22 

Haughton, Richard E. . . . 

155, 177, 179, 180, 281 

Havens. Joseph M 54 

Hawkins, Eugene . . . 181, 205 

Hawkins, Robert W 205 

Hawkins, W. B 125 

Hawn, Emanuel R 194 

Hayden, Anexamander M. 180 

Hayes, George C 283 

Hayes, Samuel M 194 

Haymaker, George W. . . 282 

Haymond, Rufus 127 

Raymond, William S.. . . 

194, 282 

Haynes. (Rising Sun) . . 44 

Hays, Franklin W 282 

Hays, George C 137 

Hazard, H. W 118 

Heady, William S 283 

Heald, J. F 155 

Heath, Frederic C 178 



382 



INDEX. 



TAGB 

Heaton, Johnson F 194 

Heatwole, Joseph II. . . . 283 

Heavenridge, Allen. 155, 283 

Hedges. Isaac B 283 

Helm, Jefferson 

84, 85, 116, 147, 155, 182, 

2gg 

Helm, John C 92, 283 

Helm. John II 177, 283 

Helmer, Orlando H 194 

Hendershot, Claude T. . 

181, 338 

Henderson, Harvey I) . . . 

155, 283 

Henderson, James T. . . . 283 

Henderson, John F 194 

Hendricks. William .... 212 
Hendricks, William C. . . 194 

1-Ienkle, (Wabash) 

146. 155, 182 

Henley, A. W 123 

Henning, Robert 283 

Henry, (Chesterfield) .. 209 

Henry, David H 194 

Henry, Robert 194 

Hensley, John H 283 

Henthorne, Lewis S . . . . 284 

Herrmann, John 284 

Hervey, Frank F 284 

Hervey, James W 

95, 96, 155, 194, 284 

Hervey, Thomas P 194 

Hess. Luther W 284 

Hessler, Robert 336,369 

Hiatt, Christopher C. . . 194 
Hibberd, James F ..... . 

155, 176, 178, 232, 284 

Hickam, Wilfred 286 

Hickox, H. C 155 

Higbee, Edward S 194 

Higday, Tompkins 

52, 53, 54, 55. 286 

Higgins, Carter B 286 

Highman, Louis 286 

Higinbotham, Samuel . . 194 

Hilburn, Eber W 286 

Hilburn, Jabez C 194 

Hildredth, (Madison Co.) 210 

Hill. Reuben M 135 

Hillis, (Jackson Co.) . . . 227 

Hillis. D. B 139, 155 

Hinkley, Judah 127 

Hinman, Homer T 

109, 147, 155, 182 

Hitchcock. (Covington).. 134 
Hitchcock, John W...56, 194 

Hitt, John Y 194 

Hitt, Willis Washington. 

8. 11. 16, 19, 21, 22. 147, 

155. 178. 179, 182, 286 

Hoagland John S 194 

Hobbs, William P 194 



l'AGK 

Hobbs, Wilson 

177. 180, 194, 287 

Hochstetter, Jacob P. . . 194 

1 locket t. Zimri 217 

Hodges, Fred .Tenner... 217 
Hodgkins, Lewis W.... 194 

Hoel, John B 155 

Hoffman, Max F. A 194 

Holcomb, John B 

147, 155, 183 

Holland, Hezekian 1!) 

Holmes, Azel 56, 58 

Holtzmann, Samuel E . . 194 
Homburg, Conradin .... 287 

Hoover. (Muncie) 1)2 

Hopkins, Joseph 66 

Hornbrook, William P. . 

194, 288 

Home, John 210, 218 

Home, Samuel S . . . 122, 288 

Horner, Jacob S 194 

Hotchkiss, ( Terre Haute ) . 62 
Houghland, William T.. 194 

Houser, Jacob H 194 

Howard, C. N 130 

Howard, Elijah J 288 

Howard, John L 369 

Howard, Noble P 

155, 180, 194, 288 

Howes. (Madison) 44 

Howland, J. M 

75, 80, 81, 85, 86 

Hudleson, Lucius R.... 288 
Huggins, George M 

146, 155, 183 

Hughes, S. W 117, 119 

Hughs, John 288 

Humphreys, Louis 

54, 155, 177, 179. 194, 

288 
Hunt, Andrew M 

73, 146, 155, 183, 194 

Hunt, Franklin W ' 

52, 146, 183 

Hunt, John 

...145, 155, 183, 210, 218 

Hunt, John W 218 

Hunt, Tilghman 288 

Hunt, William A 218 

Hunter, James B 194 

Hurd, Anson 155, 194 

Hurt, William J 180 

Hurty, John N 181, 368 

Huston, A. S 219 

Hutchinson, David 

145, 155, 164, 176, 179, 

183, 194, 288, 364 

Inlow, James E 219 

Inlow, John J 290 

Insley, William Q 290 

Ireland, J. M 155 



INDEX 



383 



PAGE 

Ireland. William II 11)4 

Irish, (Covington) 134 

Irish, (Terre Haute).... 56 

Irwin, George E 194 

Irwin. John S 155 

Irwin, Luther M 290 

Isler, J 155 

Iutzi, Joseph 290 

.Tackman. Frank 291 

Jackson, John 130 

Jackson, Solomon 139 

James. (Rising Sun)... 44 
Jameson, Patrick H. . . . 

33, 73. 146. 148, 155, 183, 

291, 367, 368 

Jaquess, George D 194 

Jay, James C 195 

Jcancon. John Allard... 195 

Jenks, Edward 99 

Jennings, D 155 

Jessup, D. H 155 

Jessup, Robert B 

9, 19, 20, 21, 22, 180, 195, 

291 

Jessup, R. R 155 

Jewett, Luther 155, 291 

Jobes, George 291 

John, Isaac G 129 

John. Jr., (Brookville).. 128 

Johnson, (Brookville)... 128 

Johnson, Charles S 291 

Johnson, E. K 155 

Johnson, H. Y. Y 

73, 146, 155, 183 

Johnson, Isaac C 195 

Johnson, Jarvis J. . .195, 202 

Johnson, John B 195 

Johnson, Joseph 155 

Johnson, Lemuel R 292 

Johnson, Nathan 

145, 155, 176, 178, 179, 

183. 292 

Johnson, P. Roosevelt . . 155 

Johnson, Samuel F 195 

Johnson, Thomas J 195 

Johnson, Thomas W. ... 292 

Johnson, William W. ... 195 

Johnson, Z. C 130 

Jones. Caleb Y 

. . .133, 136. 186, 195, 292 

Jones, David M 155 

Jones, G. S 133 

Jones, George W 195 

Jones, Harry 195 

Jones, Hiram G 293 

Jones, Homer 1 205 

Jones, James Y 195 

Jones, J. M 219 

Jones, John H 195 

Jones, John S 134 

Jones, Joseph 195 



PAGE 

Jones, Joseph 134 

Jones, "Long" 1 35 

Jones, P. G 26, 187 

Jones, Peter 63 

Jones, Robert E 293 

Jones, T. B 21)3 

Jones, Thomas N. ..195, 219 

Jones, William B 195 

Jordan, De W T itt 210 

Josse. John M 195, 293 

Judkins, Elam 1 293 

Judkins, Stanton, 1 17. 1 55, 1 83 

Juettner, Otto 393 

Jump, Samuel V 92, 293 

Justice, John H 293 

Kahlo, George D 178, 369 

Kamman. G. H 138 

Kappel, John H 293 

Kautz. John 293 

Kay, David G 195 

Kav, Robert 195 

Keegan, Charles J 293 

Keeley, (Covington).... 134 

Keen,* Lorenzo S 195 

Keiper, George F. . .175, 180 

Keiser, Alfred 195 

Kell, (Gibson Co.) 226 

Kell, Mrs. Rev. John... 226 

Kellogg, Norman P 202 

Kellv, Mathew 195 

Kelsy, Jeremiah S 293 

Kelso, Reese D 293 

Kelso, William H 195 

Kemper. General W. H . . 

89, 93. 174. 177. 195, 232, 

366. 367. 369. 370 

Kempt E. J 293 

Kempt Mathew 293 

Kempt Paul H 294 

Kendall. Jacob Key .... 

6. 12, 14, 15, 63, 64 

Kendall. R. M 130 

Kendrick, William H . . . 195 

Kennedy, Hamlet K 195 

Kennedy, Leroy H 195 

Kennedy, Levi H 155 

Kennedy, Samuel . . . 180, 369 

Kennedy, Samuel A. 155, 294 

Kennedy. Thomas 129 

Kennedv. Thomas C . . . . 178 

Kersey, Silas H 195, 294 

Kersey, Vierling 

145, 148, 155, 176, 178, 

183. 294, 362 

Kessinger, Ellis M 295 

Kester, Ephraim 124 

Ketcham. John D 295 

Kilgore, Tecumseh.,195, -219 

Killen. James 195 

Kimball, Abner D 195 

Kimball, Thomas C 205 



884 



INDEX, 



PAGE 

Kimberlin, (Jackson Co.). 140 

Kimsey, J. C 132 

Kinderman, Alexander. . 295 

Kin-. Enoch W 295, 366 

King, Ilenrv K 195 

King, M. O. 335 

King, William F 19.1. 295 

Kirby. Henry 92, 195 

Kirkpatriek, George W. . 195 

Riser, William P 104 

Kitchen. John M. . .156, 368 

Kivett, John 156 

Knapp, A. B 287 

Knapp, Moses L 53 

Knepfler, Natnan 

156. 29.",. 296 

Knight, (Old Chambers- 
burg) 135 

Knight, James H 195 

Knoefel, August F 181 

Kosdick, G. W 130 

Krauth, Ferdinand .... 195 

Kuester, Charles E 195 

Kunkler, Gustave A. . . . 196 

Kuvkendall, J 18, 19 

Kyle, John J 205 

Kynett, William . . . 209, 210 

Lamb, James 296 

Lamberson, H. M 113 

Lambey. Louis 196 

Lammers. Frank H 296 

Landon, H 98 

Lane, Daniel S 186 

Lane, William Carr.T, 14, 15 

Langdon, Harry K 205 

Lansing, Sylvester .... 196 

Larkin, John B 196. 296 

Larkins. Edgar L. ..180, 367 

Larue, Benjamin 296 

Lash, Hugh M 296 

Latta, Milton M 

99, 156, 179. 297, 366 

Lattimore, Finley C 196 

Laughlin, Edmond D 180 

Laughlin, John M 211 

Laughlin, William B. . . . 

49. 75, 76. 77, 84 

Lawder, William G 297 

Lawrence, Amos 297 

Lavman, Daniel W 297 

Layman. Daniel W 299 

Leach. (Attica) 137 

Leatherman, Joseph H.. 299 

Leavitt, Philander C 196 

Lee, George W 54 

Lee, Henry D 58 

Leech, Elliott W 196 

Leech, Thomas F...180. 204 

Leedy, John K 130, 196 

Lemon, William H 196 

Lennox, Frank 299 



PAGE 

Lent, Cyrus V. N 196 

Leonard. Somervell E... 

. • .146. 156, 183, 299, 361 

Leslie, Alexander 

19, 156, 299 

Letcher. J. K 22 

Lewcllen, Wesley 92 

Lewis. Eli 196 

Lewis, George C 300 

Lewis, John ...147, 156, 183 

Lewis, John 1 205 

Lewis, Samuel B 196 

Librav, Presley 117 

Liddall. James P 196 

Light, Amos B 300 

Lime. (Jackson Co.)... 227 

Lindsley. John 156 

Lingle, Richard W 300 

Lininger, Daniel P 196 

Link, Harvev 156 

Linn. Timothy T 300 

Linnville. Lewis M 300 

Linton, Samuel M 

107, 156, 176, 300 

Lister, F. E 131 

Little. H. A 300 

Llovd. Frederick 156 

Lockhart, Wilson ..176. 180 
Lomax. Constantine .... 

123, 300 

Lomax, W T illiam 

54, 120, 123, 156. 176, 

178. 196, 300, 301. 366 

Long, E 139 

Long, Jeremiah H 301 

Long, John 228 

Loring, David J 181 

Louks, Thomas C 147 

Lovel. (Brookville) 128 

Lovett. John A 301 

Low, Nathan M 156 

Lummis, Joseph E 301 

Lynch, M. J 156 

Lyons, Ira E 301 

.Lvons, Lewis D 302 

Lyons, William B...180, 302 

McCaskev, George W. . . . 

177, 338 

McCain. ( Huntsville). . . 210 

McCarthy. John F 196 

McCaulev, Robert.. .302, 303 

McChristie. John 196 

McClain, James 202 

McClelland. James S. . . . 

156, 163. 179, 196, 304, 

363 
McClenahan, Thomas J. 

156, 220 

McClure. David 305 

McClure, Jesse D 305 

McClure, Robert M 107 



/ SDEX 



385 



McClure, Samuel M 

McConnell, George W. . . , 

McConnell, James 

McCoy, George K 

McCoy, James A. (' 

McCoy, John 

McCoy, William A 

McCoy, William N 

McCrea, Thomas P 

McCulloch, James 

McCullough, Howard . . . 
McCullough, John L. . 03, 
McCully, Charles II. . . . 

McCune, George W 

McDaniel, Cornelius W.. 

McDonald, D. H 

McDougal, Charles 

McDougle, Charles .... 
McElwee, (Fountain Co.) 

McFadden, William G. . 

150, 190, 

McFall, D. M 

McFarland, J. B 

McGaughey, Andrew J. . 
McGaughey, John W. . . . 

McGee, Richard 

McGraw, T. A 

McJenkins, F. M 

McKee, A. B 

McKee, Samuel C, Jr... 

0, 12. 14. 

McKinney, Asa W 

McKinney, George W. . . 

McKinstry, John F 

McLelland, A. J 

McLeod, Angus J 

McMahan, Samuel AY. . . 

McMahan, W. V 

McMechan, James G. . . . 

150, 

McNamee, Elias 

0, 14, 15, 18, 19, 03, 

McNary, Charles B 

McNear, (Moonsville). . . 

McNutt, James H 

McPheeters, John G 

McPheeters, John S 

McPheeters, Joseph G. . . 

McShane, John T 

McShirley, James L. . . . 
MacCoy, George T 

100, 177, 

Maclean, Caroline Fitch. 
Maclean, George M. .150, 
Maddox, (Gibson Co.).. . 

Maddox, Joseph 

Magann, Edwin W 

Mageniss, John 

Mahan, Oliver P 

140, 150. 

Malone, John A 



PAGE 

190 
132 
132 
190 
190 
190 
305 
305 
190 
305 
305 

04 
181 
190 
305 
150 
203 

32 

137 

305 
150 
150 
305 
150 
190 
99 
19 



15 

190 
305 
305 
138 
305 
300 
220 

300 

05 
300 
210 
190 
300 
196 
196 
300 
300 

308 
302 
302 
220 
19 
190 
190 

183 



PAGE 

Hanker, Lewis 190 

Mantle, John K. . .9, 19, 22 

Manuel, Grofton 22s 

Mapes, Smith II 300 

Markle, John E 300 

Marr, Delos 15 300 

Marquim, (Old Chambers- 
burg) . . 135 

Marsee, Joseph W 300 

Marsh, Wells K 54 

Marshall, Daniel M 307 

Martin, James W 190 

Martin, John II. L 307 

Martin, M. L 150 

Martin, Samuel F 196 

Martin, Samuel M 308 

Martin, William II 190 

Martin, W. H 75, 85. 87 

Martin, W. W 196 

Mason, Ferdinand 196 

Mason, Charles R 308 

Mason, Philip 

41, 115, 110. 117 

Ma-te-a (Indian) 28 

Mauzy, R. D 150 

Mavity, James S 308 

Maxwell, (Jackson Co.). 140 
Maxwell, James D.. Sr. . 

147, 150. 183. 308 

Maxwell, James D., Jr. . 308 

Maxwell, O. S 135 

May, Oliver T 308 

May, Willis L 202 

May, Willis L 308 

Mayer, Carl F 308 

Mayfield, Clifford H 120 

Mayo, William W...15G, 303 

Mears, George W 

57, 70, 72, 73, 140, 148, 
156, 176, 183. 308, 301, 
305 

Mears N 19 

Medaris, John 131, 132 

Meek, John A 122, 190 

Meeker, Daniel 

52, 53, 54, 55, 09, 156, 
176, 179, 196, 310, 304 

Meeker, Lvsander 196 

Megee, William N 310 

Melscheimer, CL. rles T. 

190, 310 

Mendenhall, Elihu T 

310 

Mendenhall, J 150 



37 

310 
310 
197 
220 
Meranda, Isaac 73 



Mendenhall, J. R. 
Mendenhall, Nathan . . . . 

150. 

Mendenhall, William O. . 
Mendenhall, William T. . 
Menefee, E. H 



306 Mercer, Thomas C...... 310 



386 



INDEX. 





rAGE 






PAGE 


Mercer, William M 


i;»7 


Morgan. ( Jackson Co.).. 


13!> 


Meredith, Marion . 


197 


Morgan. Daniel . . . 




150 


Merit. Nathaniel P 


197 


Morgan, James W. . 




197 


Merrit, J. N 


2"' 
197 


Morgan. Ralph G. . 




314 


Messner, Samuel F. . . . 


Morgan, Robert H . 




314 


Metcalf. Charles N 


310 


Morgan. Samuel B. 




314 


Metz, J. J 


156 


Morgan. William J. 


..92. 


211 


Miles, (Newton) 


137 


Morgan, William V. 




314 


Miller. Abrani 


311 


Morris. (Brookville 


1 • • • 


1?9 


Miller, James 


197 


Morris. J. M 




1 56 


Miller. M. F 


118 


Morrow, Doctor F . 




197 


Miller, Samuel 




Morrow, James L. . 




197 


41, 110, 117, 


118 


Morse. M. F 




132 


Millman, John H 


311 


Moss, Gordon A. . . 




197 


Millner. Isaac N 


197 


Mothershead, F. M. 




157 


Mills, James R 


197 


Mothershead. John 


E. . . 




Minich. James A 


311 


32, 33, 43, 73, 


145, 


146, 


Minshall, Levi 93, 


94 


156. 179, 183, 314 




Mitchel. Walter J 


311 


Mothershead. J. L. 




314 


Mitchell, D. B 


49 


Mulhauser, H. ... 




157 


Mitchell, D. G 


49 


Mulhauser. M. ... 




157 


Mitchell, Elisha V 


197 


Mullane. Joseph . . 




314 


Mitchell, Giles B 156; 


313 


Mullen, Alexander 


J 




Mitchell, Harvev 


313 


129, 130, 145, 


157. 


183, 


Mitchell, James F 


311 


197, 314 






Mitchell, John D 


180 


Mullen, Bernard F. 






Mitchell, Robert 


197 


129, 130, 147. 


157. 


183. 


Mitchell, Robert S 


197 


315 






Mitchell, Samuel E 


92 


Mullen. Cora E. . . 






Mitchell, Samuel G 




315, 


316, 


317 


31, 33, 43, 49, 


50 


Mullen, John W. . . 






Mitchell, T. G 


220 


147. 157. 


183. 


316 


Mock, John W 


137 


Mullinix, Maston G 


.197, 


317 


Mock, Samuel I 


138 


Munford, Samuel E. . . . 




Modesett, Charles B..61, 


62 


177. 


197. 


317 


Modricker, John M 


313 


Murdock, George D 


. .49, 


128 


Moffett, John 




Murphv. Alexander 


1). . . 


197 


75, 87, 156, 176, 179, 


180, 


Murphv, Alexander 


M.. . 


197 


313 




Murphv, Edward . 




157 


Moffett, Joseph 




Murphy, Pierson . . 




319 


41. 84, 113, 115, 116. 


128 


Murray, Alfred L. . 




319 


Moffltt, John 


197 


Murrav. Ralph V. . 




197 


Monroe, Jasper R 




Myers, Seth F 




197 


139, 140, 197, 


927 


Myers, William D . 




J 97 


Monroe, Victor H 


228 


Myers, William H. . 






Montgomery, David B. . . 


313 


197. 


319. 


370 


Montgomerv, George B . . 


197 








Monteith, Jacob S 


197 


Nash, George W. . . 




321 


Moodey, John W 




Neat. Thomas C. . . 




197 


...147. 156, 162. 183, 


313 


Neely, John M. . . . 




197 


Mooney, Henry C 


313 


Neglev, D. N 




157 


Moore, (Cumberland) 


95 


Nelson, William Y. 




197 


Moore, (Indianapolis) .. 


365 


Nesbit. Thomas . . 




19 


Moore, Anderson M 


202 


Nesbitt, Joseph A.. 


.157. 


321 


Moore, Charles V 


313 


New, George W. . . 






Moore, Harry S 


205 


. . .147, 157, 183. 


197, 


321 


Moore, Harvey A 


205 


Newcomer. Frisby 


s... . 




Moore, John 


203 


157, 


321. 


365 


Moore, John B 


313 


Newkirk. A. L 


.140. 


22g 


Moore, Maurice G 


181 


Newland. Benjamin 






Moore, R. C 


156 


157. 177. 179, 


180. 


11)7. 


Moorf . Richard S 


314 


321 







INDEX. 



38; 



1WGE 

Xewland. Elijah K 157 

Xewland. Harold C 205 

Newland, James H 321 

Newton, William T : > »21 

Nichols. John 1) 197 

Nierman, Herman g. . . . 322 

Niles. John B 52, 53, 54 

Niman, Charles II 322 

Niman. Jonas P 322 

Noble, B. S 129 

Noble, Thomas 15.. Sr. . . 

32*> 

'.'. 322 

3 

. 322 



Noland. Stacy T. . . 
Norris, Samuel ('.. . 
North, Eugene 15... 

Nutt, John 

73, 146, 157, 183 

Nuzum, I). P 220 

O'Connor, John Z 220 

O'Ferrall, Robert M 

157, 179, 197. 322 

Offutt, T. F 19 

Ogden, Joseph 137 

O'Haver, J. K 19 

Olcutt. W. A 157 

Olds, Joseph II 197 

Oliver, David 44. 49 

Oliver, Dandridge II.... 322 

Oliver. John II 369 

Omo. Joseph II 322 

O'Neal. Laughlin .. .157, 197 

O'Rear, Charles D 322 

Origan, James F 22 

Orr, James P 197 

Orvis. John Quincv 229 

O'Ryan, C. D. B 118 

Osgood. Howard G 197 

Osterman. A. G 138, 227 

Owen, Abraham M 322 

Pabody, Ezra Fitch 

44. 322. 323 

Palmiter, Clebron 98 

Pantzer, Hugo 264 

Paris, Absalom 220 

Paris, William 220 

Parker, G. B 1f>7 

Parker. Joseph 323 

Parks. Edward K . . . 1 30, 197 

Parks. William 130 

Parmerlee, H. M 203 

Parr. John N 323 

Parr. Thomas E 323 

Parry, Charles 

45. 73. 146, 157. 178. 183. 

323. 324, 361. 367 

Parsons. George W 197 

Parvin, Theophilus .... 

2. 99. 157, 176, 178, 202, 

324. 325. 320 

Patrick. Septer 56, r>7 



327 



:!27 
327 

19S 

209 

327 
220 



PAGK 
Pal leu. James (' 

107. 227. 327 

Patterson. John .J 198 

Patterson. Philip P. 211. 220 
Patterson, It. J 

145, 14S, 157, 183 

Pattison, George W 198 

Patton. Alfred 

. . .3. 11, 22. 74. 185, ISO 

Payne. .J. II 140 

Paynter, Christian L... 327 

Pearce, John W 198 

Pearman, Francis M 

198, 

Pearson. Charles I> 

los. 

Peck, Samuel W. . .198, 

Peganu, Emanuel 

Pegg, Jesse A 

147, 157, 183, 

Pence. Itollin 

Pennington, I. I 

Pennington. Joel 

53, 41, 157, 177. 178. 

327 

Pennington, J. W 

Pennington. W. D 

Pepper. William J. .118, 
P e r c e v al, (Lawrence- 
burg) 

Perkins Conrad S 

Perry, David 

Perry, John W 

Personett, L. D. .- 

Pettijohn, Amos 

Pettijohn, Deming 

Peyton, David C 

174, 178. 205, 

Pfaff, John A 

Phillips, Charles W 

Phillips, R. N 

Phipps. John M. . . .19s. 

Piatt. William C 

Pickthall, Arthur 

Pier, (Centerville).. .38, 

Pierson, Allen 

Pitcher, Stewart 

Pitzer, Andrew B 

Pleasants, John H. . . 73. 

Plummer, Isaac N 

Plummer, J. T :;7. 

Foffenberger. Isaiah . . . 

Polke, Thomas 03. 

Pope, Henry IT 

Porter, Albert G 180, 

Porter, John P 

Porter, Joseph 

Porter, Miles F 

Porter, William I) 

Posey, John W 10. 

Pottenger, Wilson 



179. 

19 
368 

328 

44 
108 
21 1 
220 
157 
328 

54 



2.14 
200 
328 
328 
328 
198 
198 

39 

73 
198 
328 
157 
198 

38 
198 

64 
198 
328 
198 

10 
177 
328 
328 
108 



iSH 



INDEX. 



PAGE 

Potter. Theodore 

181, 276, 368 

Potts. John 198 

Poucher, Charles H. C. . 328 

Powers. James II 92 

Pratt, Joel 220 

Pratt, Samuel R 198 

Pressley, William H 3 57 

Preston. (Middletown). . 209 

Preston, Albert G 

147, 157, 179, 183. 198. 

328 

Preston, Samuel C 330 

Price, James M 125 

Prigg, Edward C 330 

Pritchett, John 40, 198 

Proegler. Carl 330 

Prunk. Daniel H 198 

Pugh, Joseph, Sr 220 

Pugh, J. W 22 

Pugh. John W 330 

Pugh, Joseph, Jr 220 

Pugh, Mahlon 330 

Pugh, William A 

37, 75. 330 

Purviance, Samuel W... 330 

Quick. John II 128 

Rainev. Harvev W 330 

Ralston, William G 198 

Ramsey, (Jackson Co.) . . 140 

Ramsey, C. S 

146, 157, 183 

Randall, W. D 98 

Ransburg. Martin V 330 

Rathert, William H 206 

Rea. George N 330 

Rea, John 157, 330 

Read, Ezra 

56. 74, 162. 198, 330, 332 

Read, Thomas M 157 

Reader, William 157 

Reagan, Amos W. ...157, 198 

Reagan. Jesse 157. 198 

Reasoner. William M... 332 

Record, Samuel 157 

Reed, Albert S 198 

Reed, C. S 99 

Reed, E. P 228 

Reel, Alfred 22 

Reeves, Uriah G 332 

Reid, Samuel 157, 179 

Reiley. William F 332 

Renner. John G. E 332 

Rerick. John H 198 

Reynolds, (Brookston). . 131 

Reynolds, Robert C 198 

Rice, C. D 132 

Richards, George W. ... 53 

Richards, Samuel D 198 

Richardson. (Monon)... 131 



Richardson, Adamson G. 
Kicliardson, George T. . . 
Richardson, Nehemiah . . 
Richmond, Corydon .... 

208, 333, 

Richmond, John L 

208, 221, 334, 

Rider, Daniel M 

Riffle, John S 137, 

Ringo, James L 

Ritchie, James 104, 

Ritchie, John 

Ritter, John A 

Ritter, Levi 

Ritter, Mary 

Robb, Andrew 

Robbins, Alfred H..179, 

Robbins, Clark 

Robbinson, John A 

Robertson, (A'allonia) . . 

Robinson, Lanson D 

Robinson, William E.. . . 

Robson, John R 

Robson, Robert 

Rockwell, William 

Rodman, (Freetown) . . . 

Roe, E. R 

Roe, John L 139, 

Roe, John S 

Roesgen, (Dudleytown) . 

Roether, Daniel B 

Rogers, Clarke 

Rogers, Dudley 
Rogers, Joseph 
Rogers, Joseph 

147, 

Roland, Henry 

Rooker, James I 

158, 199, 

Ronalds, Hugh 

Rose, Gustavus A 

Rose, Joseph 

Rose, Madison H 

199. 

Rosegan, Philip 

Rosenthal, Isaac M 

180, 

Rosenthal, J 

Ross, Charles A 

Ross, Jonathan 

Ross, Justin P 

Rous, Hannah C 

Rowan. B. C 27, 

Rowland, George 

Rowland, Thomas 

Rowland, Willard 

Rubish, David P 

Ruby, Alfred 

Rucker. T. H 158, 

Ruddell, A. G 73, 

Runcie. E. T 

Rundell, Alpharis E . . . . 



G.. ..335, 
II. D. . . . 

158, 183, 
B. ..106, 



198 
333 
333 

366 

393 

221 

198 
221 
105 
103 
198 
157 
132 
209 
334 
157 
198 
140 
198 
158 
198 
198 
198 
140 
209 
198 
158 
139 
198 
335 
198 
336 

335 
107 

336 

158 

52 

103 

336 

228 

336 
158 
338 
338 
338 
338 
158 
133 
13G 
158 
339 
117 
361 
209 
158 
339 



INDEX, 



389 



PAGE 

Rupert, Delos W 199 

Rush, Lorenzo 134 

Russell, E. T 85 

Russell, George H 199 

Russell, Isaac C 199 

Ruter, Rinaldo R 199 

Rutledge. William 199 

Ryan, Townsend 

145, 158, 178, 183, 199, 

221 

Rynerson, J. N 158 



Sabine, Elias H 

Sackett, (Centerville) . . 

Sadler, Joseph J 

St. Clair, Owen 

St. John, Samuel 

121, 

Salb, James P 

Salisbury, David 

Sanborn* Perley P 

Sanders. John H 

33. 73. 144, 146, 148, 

158, 183 

Sanford, James H 

Sapper, (Jackson Co.) . . 

Sarber, William E 

Saunders. Joseph 

Sawyer, J. S 

Scearce, John C 

Schafer. Albert F 

Schell, Frederick A 

Schell, Walker 

Scherer, Simon P 

Schmidt, Elizabeth 

Schmidt, Gustavus A . . . 

Schmidtz, Charles 

Schonover, William S. . . 

Schultz, Guy A 

Schultz, Oscar T 

Schultz, William H 

Schussler, Charles 

Schweitzer, Ada E 

Scott, (Newtown) 

Scott, Daniel V 

Scott, Gideon 

Scott, William 

Scott, William 

Scott, William G 

Scrambling. William H. 
Scribner. William A. . . . 

.146, 158, 1S3, 

Scudder, John A 

Scudder, K. A 32, 

Scull, David C 

Seaton. William H 

Sevenick. Bernard 

Severance. Lagrange . . . 

Severn, Mrs. John 

Sexton. Horatio G 

75. 76. 77. 7S, S4. 85 

179. 340 



199 

38 

199 

200 

122 
181 
199 
339 

149, 

339 
140 
130 
2^2 
19 
199 
339 
199 
177 
3 
339 
199 
339 
.158 
206 
339 
180 
199 
371 
135 
339 
339 
199 
339 
199 
340 

340 
199 

49 
340 
340 

26 
340 
225 



PAGE 

Sexton, John C 177 

Sexton, Marshall 

43, 49, 75, 80, 85, 158, 

177, 1!)9. 340 

Shaffer, Abner H 199 

Sbald. F. S 48 

Shaplev. William W 199 

Sharp, Harry C. ...181, 369 

Sharp, W. M 211 

Sheldon, George W 199 

Shell. Ogden G 206 

Shellhamer, Carey 340 

Sherman, ( Newtown ) . . . 137 

Sherman, Mason G 199 

Sheppard, M 158 

Sherrod, R. W 158 

Sherrod, William F 199 

Sherwin. Herman H. . . . 199 

Shewmaker, L. Z 140 

Shidler, Arthur L 340 

Shields, (Courtland) ... 140 
Shields, John T. . . .140. 227 
Shields. Pleasant S 

146, 158, 179. 183. 340. 

361, 362 
Shipman, Azariah P>. ... 

53. r,4 

Shipman, Norbourn N. . . 341 

Shirts. Elmer 341 

Shively, James S...122. 341 
Shoots, see Chutes. Geo. 140 
Shoptaugh. Sheltou H . . 341 

Short, Wesley 199 

Showalter, D. T 341 

Shuler, Laurence S 

. .7, 60, 61, 63, 64. 05. <»<» 
Shumard, George B 

19. 20, 21 

Sieber, John A 341 

Silroy, B. S 118 

Simison, John 341 

Simms, John M 199 

Rimonson. James C 199 

Sims, T. S 222 

Sinex, William G 

'. . .146. 158. 183. 341 

Siver, Emmett L 205 

Skiff, Clark 92. 342 

Skinner. John A 158, 179 

Skull. E 7. 14 

Slaughter, Robert C. . . . 199 
Slaughter, William W. . . 199 

Slavens, Zenas L 199 

Sloan, George W 342 

Sloan, John 

146, 148, 158, 176. 179, 

183, 342, 361 

Smelser, J. W 158 

Smiley, (New Columbus) 210 
Smith, (Jackson Co.)... 140 
Smith. (Fort Wayne) . . 25 
Smith. Andrew J... 199. 342 



!H. 



INDEX 



PAGE 

Smith, Caleb (Boneset- 

ter) 119 

smith, Carter II ISO 

Smith. Hiram 

100. 101, IOC 

Smith. Hubbard M 

9, 17. 10. 22. 158, 342, 

343 

Smith, Isaac 15S 

Smith, Jacob .1 204 

Smith, .7. C 212 

Smith, John W 199 

Smith, John \Y 343 

Smith, Lester F 343 

Smith, Samuel E 33G 

Smith, Theophilns E 343 

Smith, W. A 22 

Smith, Wickliffe ...205.343 

Smith. William B. .. .37. 38 

Smith, William G 343 

Smith, William R 

73. 96. 145, 138, 183. 199 

Smith, William Z 199 

Smydth, William C 199 

Smvthe, Gonsolvo C . . . 

177. 199. 343 

Snyder, (Indianapolis) . . 49 

Snyder, William Y 103 

Somers, Joseph ...7, 19, 158 

Sommer, Edgar L 206 

Spain, Archibald W . 199. 344 

Spalding, Lyman 64 

Spann, Benjamin F 223 

Sparks, James B 344 

Sparks, Nathan B 199 

Speed, Edward B 199 

Spence. William F 

122. 211 

Spencer, Robert 158. 199 

Spencer, William ...158, 199 

Spinning, John N 344 

Spinning, Newton 136 

Spottswood, Edmond T. 

158. 199 

Sprinkle, AY. B 22 

Spurgeon, William A:.. 

. . 234, 259. 281 

Spurrier, John II 

200. 202, 344 

Squire, William B 200 

Stacy, George W...130. 158 

Stage, Louis J 

140. 227, 344 

Stahle, Daniel 19 

Stanton, D. S 344 

Starr, Her D 344 

Starrett, Walter K 206 

Stearns, Elias P 200 

Steele, (Greenburg) .... 117 

Steele, Armstrong T. . . . 344 

Steelsmith, John M 344 



PAGE 

Stemm. William II 

181, 24s. 323 

Stephenson, David \Y . . . 181 

Stephenson. Joseph .... 223 

Stevens, Benjamin C. . . . 344 

Stevens, Oliver V 344 

Stevens, Robert 135 

Stevens. Thaddeus M. . • 

<i0. 71. 72. 73, 158, 345, 

366 

Stewart, John 1 34.". 

Stewart. Jonas 

177. 180, 207 

Stewart. William D 203 

Stewart, William J. .... 200 

Stillson. Joseph 345 

Stillwell, Joseph A.. 200. 345 

Stipp, George Winfield. . 204 

Stockwell, Robert 226 

Stockwell, Sarah F 345 

Stone, R. French 

2, 232. 370 

Stough. S 98 

Stout. Oliver H 158 

Stuart. O. G 19 

Study, James M 203 

Stukey, John M 200 

Stunkard. Thomas C 205 

Strong, John T 201. 345 

Suman. William 223 

Summers. Osa R 347 

Sutton, George 

158, 160. 163, 176. 179. 

346. 363, 365, 366. 367 

Sutton. James A 347 

Sutton; Willis E 347 

Swafford. Benjamin F . . 

200. 347 

Swain. William 212 

Swallow. George E 223 

Swarts. David J 

200. 348 

Sweenv, Thomas J 200 

Sweezy, William C 200 

Taggart, John F 200 

Taggart. Samuel C 348 

Talbott, Hiram E 

147, 15S. 183 

Tate, William 158 

Tayler, W. H 147. 183 

Taylor, Alfred B 200 

Taylor, Daniel W 200 

Taylor. F. W 130 

Taylor. Timothv . . .131. 15S 

Taylor. William D 200 

Taylor; W. W 118 

Teal, Norman 

99, 200. 348 

Terhune, R. W 

304. 319. 369 

Terrill, Luther B 223 



INDEX. 



39 1 



PAGE 

Ten-ill, William II.. Sr. . 

348 

Ten-ill, William II., .lr. . 

B48 

Terry, Charles C 181 

Terry, L. B 130 

Thomas, (Brookston) . . 131 

Thomas, (Fishersburg) . . 210 

Thomas. Andrew 3 

22, 348 

Thomas, Charles L 200 

Thomas, Blias B 200 

Thomas, James ....113, 114 

Thomas, James H 200 

Thomas, John H 200 

Thomas, L. C 202 

Thomas, M. W 158 

Thomas, Mary F 348 

Thomas. Wan-en II 348 

Thomas. William II 348 

Thompson. A. H ITS 

Thompson. A. M 228 

Thompson, Daniel A. ... 348 

Thompson. James L. . . . 202 

Thompson, John C 200 

Thompson. John II 340 

Thompson. John J 340 

Thompson, Joseph 22 

Thompson, L. G 25 

Thompson. Thomas B. . . 10 

Thompson. W. E 158 

Thompson. William Clin- 
ton ... 

73, 146, 158, 1S3. 203. 340 

Thorne, J. C. F 340 

Tichnor, James 

140. 158. 183 

Tilford. John H 200 

Tilf ord. Salem A 340 

Tillson, Hosea 200. 349 

Tilman. Jonathan R 200 

'finch, (Jackson Co.) . . . 

140, 228 

Tingley, Uriah B 

117. 118, 340 

Tinker, M. B 369 

Tisdale, Elijah 

4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14. 15 

Todd, Henry G 159 

Todd, Levi L 349 

Todd, L. L.. Jr 159 

Todd, Robert N 

70, 72. 159, 170, 180, 200, 

349, 365 

Todd, William A 200 

Tolerton, James 200 

Toms, Alpheus 351 

Torbet, (Wilmington)... 44 

'Corbet, George A 200 

Torry, John L 53 

Town, R. R 159. 361 

Townsend, Lydia . . . 252, 299 



PAGE 

Townsend, Terry M. . . . 206 

Trask, Ezra Stiles 120 

Treat. (Allen Co.) 25 

'Trembly, D 118 

Tremblv. G. 1) 351 

Trent, Isaac X 181, 368 

Trnesdale. (Vincennes).. 18 

Triplett, Charles E 200 

Trowbridge, William A'.. :'>51 

Trneblocd. Charles .... 368 

Tucker. Thomas M 351 

Tiu-nce. (Terre Haute).. 62 

Turner, (Allen Co.) 24 

Turner. George W 351 

Twiford. Willis II 200 

Tyler. W. W 159 

Tyner. Samuel L 200 

Underbill, Joshua W... 200 
Uphane. (Fort Wayne).. 25 
Usher, Nathaniel 125 

Vaile. Joel 

37, 38, 150, 200 

Van Buskirk, Aaron E . . 351 

Van Buskirk, Edmund M. 181 

Van Meter, Isaac N 223 

Van Xuys. S. C 351 

Van Vorhis, Flavins J.. 

180, 200 

Vance. S. W 118 

Vanderbark. Peter 150 

Vanuise. (Vanoose) Da- 
vid 130. 227 

Viekrey. Absalom M. . . . 

150. 351 

Viekrey. Martin V. B. . . 351 

Vincent. Henry C. ..200. 351 

Vincent. Jeremiah K. ... 200 

Vincent, O.J 08 

Vinsenne, Francis Mor- 
gan de 4 

Vorees. (Allen Co.).... 24 

Voyles. David W 200 

Waite. (Fountain Co.).. 137 

Waldo. Loring A 40 

Walker. Augustus C. . . . 200 

AValker. David R 351 

Walker. Edward 351 

Walker. Edwin 

174, 177, 260 

Walker. George B 

150. 170. 351 

Walker. Isaac C. . 351 

Walker. James K 352 

Walker. John C 352 

Walker. John T 

150. 186. 200 

Walker, Madison G 

208. 223 



392 



INDEX. 



PAGE 

Walker. Oscar C 159 

Wall, David 352 

Wallace, A. G 159 

Wallace, Charles 

145. 159, 178. 1S3 

Wallace. James P 200 

Wallace, Lew, Gen 33 

Walter, C. G 352 

Walton, Allen M 200 

Ward, W. J 98 

Wardner. Horace 352 

Warfel. Frederick C 270 

Warford, Franklin M. . . 352 

Warner, Itliamar 36 

Warner, W. C 19 

Washburn, Israel B 

200, 352 

Washburn. Joseph L. ... 102 

Washburn, Robert K. ... 352 
Waterman, Luther D. . . 

70, 142, 177, 200 

Waters, John C 352 

Watson. C. D 133, 138 

Watts, Eber K 353 

Watts, (Madison Co.)... 44 

Wear, (Madison Co.) .. . 212 

Weaver, Samuel M 200 

Webb, (Franklin) 54 

Webb, William A 201 

Webber, Irwin W 131 

Weddington, Samuel C. . 

201, 353 

Weeks, Joseph 

210, 224, 353 

Weicht, William 132 

Weighmer, H. J 27 

Weir, Andrew X 201 

Weist, Jacob R 

. ..159, 177, 202, 353, 364 

Welborn, George W 353 

Welborn, J. C 159 

Welborn, William P. . . . 201 

Weldon, Samuel J 

. . .133, 137, 146, 159, 184 

Wellman, Richard M. . . 159 

Wells, James C 201 

Wells, John T 138 

Wells, Samuel 140, 228 

Welman, Richmond M. . 

201, 353 

Wermuth. Adolph F 354 

W T ert, E. D 140 

Wert, Samuel 

138, 139, 140 

West. Calvin 

159, 164, 165, 179, 180, 

354 

West, Vincent T 354 

Westerfield, Cyrus 211 

Westerfield. John W. ... 224 
Wetherill, Charles M. . . 

159, 354 



PAGE 

Wetherill. R. B 355 

Wheeldon, John 202 

Wheeler, (Muncie) 92 

Whipple, (Brookville) . . 129 

Whitaker, Eli D 201 

Whitcomb, James H.. . . 355 

White, Arthur 201 

White, Charles A 181 

White, J. F 355 

White, Jacob S 201 

White, James B 201 

White. John M 201 

White, William 184 

Whitehall, Alexander L. 

137, 201 

Whitesell, Joseph M. ... 201 
Whitesell, Philip P 

201, 355 

Whittlesey, William C. . 63 
Wickersham, Noah L. . . 224 

Widmer, John F. B 201 

Wilcox. J. R 159 

Wiles, (Rockford) 227 

Wiles, William V 

180, 201, 355 

Wilev. John Hezekiah.. . 

147, 184 

Wilkinson. James J 355 

Willard. Rowland 

130, 159 

Willard, William C 92 

Williams, Charles S. . . . 355 

Williams, Elkanah 355 

Williams, Hugh T 356 

Williams, J. A 92 

Williams, John 210 

Williams, John 356 

Williams, Joseph B 356 

Williams, Leroy B 356 

Williams, Lewis 356 

Williams. S. T 98 

Williams, T. B 356 

Williams. W. H 92 

Williamson. (Rockford) . 227 
Williamson, C. T 

139, 140 

Williamson, Eleazer .... 201 

Williamson, John 139 

Williamson, Robert A. . . 201 

Williamson, T. A 140 

Williamson, Thomas W. C. 

201 

Williamson, W. T 356 

Wilson, Isaac 201 

Wilson. Jacob B. 201 

Wilson, James 201 

Wilson, James 205 

Wilson. James B 159 

Wilson. J. H 356 

Wilson. James W 159 

Wilson. John R 159 



INDEX. 



393 



Wilson, Marshall V. 



Wilson, Robert Q. . 

Wilstach, C. F 

Wimmer, James M. 
Winans, Henry C. . 
Winans, Richard . 
Winchel, George . . 
Winton, Horace . . . 
Winton, Robert . 

91, ! 

Winton, William 



139, 



92. 



...159, 

12," 159, 

R 

...159, 



l'AGE 

228 
356 
159 
35G 
356 
201 
117 
356 

356 



Wise, W. H 

Wishard, Joseph M 

201, 

Wishard, William H 

2, 31, 32, 54, 142, 

148, 159, 177, 181, 

357, 367, 368 
Wishard, William X. . . . 

174, 

Witherspoon, Martin . . . 

Witt, William B 

Wolf, Harvey S 

Wolf, J. G 

Wolverton, J. D. . .7, 19, 

Wonsetler, Gideon 

Wood, Hugh D 98, 

Wood, James A 

Wood, Meredith 

Wood, William M 

Woodburn, Frederick C. . 
Woodburn, James H. . . . 

... .73, 159, 177, 180, 
Wooden, John L. ...201, 



179 
22 

357 

146, 
184, 



177 
22 

201 
159 
20 
201 
180 
201 
203 
204 
357 

357 
357 



PAGE 

Wooden, William H. ... 357 

Woods, Calvin .1 201 

Woods. Daniel L 201 

Woodward, (Rockford).. 227 
Woodworth. Benjamin S. 

99, 159, 176, 357 

Woody 362 

Woolen, Green Y 201 

Woolen, Levin J 358 

Wooley, Amos 131 

Wort. Samuel 159 

Worthington. (Attica).. 135 

Wright, Charles E 

206, 359 

Wright, Charles H 359 

Wright, Ervin 180 

Wright, Ivy E 201 

Wright, John F 159 

Wright, H. Mansur .... 159 

Wright, J. Joel 159 

Wright, John 211 

Wright, R 98 

Wyley, D 159 

Wyman, Henry 209. 224 

Wynn, Frank B 370 

Yandes, Simon 72 

Yeakle, D. T 159 

Yockey, David H 359 

Yohn, Edwin F 359 

Yohn. William A 359 

Youart, John M 201 

Young, (Frankton) .... 211 

Young. Stephen J 332 

Younkman. A. B 360 

Yount. Silas T 180 



Note. — The photograph of Dr. John L. Richmond, from 
which the cut was made facing page 334. was kindly loaned 
to me by Dr. Otto Juettner of Cincinnati. Dr. .Tuettner 
deserves praise for his energy and perseverance in discover- 
ing this picture of a remarkable man. The photograph was 
reproduced from an oil painting. — G.W.H.K. 



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